City of Fort Scott - City Manager

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Kelley Zellner is the City Manager of Fort Scott effective January 4, 2022.

Zellner received a mini-masters of public administration, a Certified Public Administrator, from Wichita State University in Feb. 2020.

In the fall of 2021, he became a certified city clerk through the League of Municipalities.

Previously he earned a master’s of art in counseling from Friends University, Wichita, in 2001. In 1998 he received a bachelor of science degree in human resource management from Friends University.

Zellner has been the Fredonia City Administrator since 2018, the Valley Center Public Works Director from 2017-2018, and was the Conway Falls Chief of Police from 2013 to 2017.

His hometown is Howard, Kansas.