Detroit Deputy Mayor Conrad Mallett on His Career in Public Service
Conrad Mallett Jr.
At 67, Conrad Mallett Jr. could be resting on his laurels. The first Black person to serve as chief justice of the Michigan Supreme Court, Mallett then spent two decades at the upper echelon of the city’s hospital system administration before alighting this spring on the 11th floor of City Hall to serve as Mayor Mike Duggan’s deputy mayor. Mallett, a Supreme Court justice from 1990 to 1999, says he felt obliged when Duggan, his old boss at Detroit Medical Center, asked him to help see the city through the COVID-19 crisis and the economic recovery that hopefully follows.