Ellen Ann Smyth
Director
City of El Paso - Environmental Services Department
Ellen Smyth is the Managing Director of Environmental Services & Sun Metro for the City of El Paso and has over 35 years’ environmental and management experience in “for-profit” fortune 100 firms as well as in public service.
Before returning to El Paso Ellen worked for Eastman Kodak, Waste Management, TXDOT, and the City of Las Cruces. Ellen holds a Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering from Texas
A & M University and a Master of Public Administration from New Mexico State University. She also holds a Master of Pastoral Studies in Theology from Loyola University, New Orleans. She is a registered Professional Engineer in the States of Texas and New Mexico.
In her current position she oversees two large departments with a combined total of nearly 800 employees and a $140 million budget that includes Mass Transit (Streetcar, Fixed Route buses and Paratransit services), Solid Waste Management (trash, recycle, landfills), Code Enforcement (nuisances, environmental health, vector control), and Environmental Engineering (mold, asbestos, ESAs, methane gas, leachate).
Before returning to El Paso Ellen worked for Eastman Kodak, Waste Management, TXDOT, and the City of Las Cruces. Ellen holds a Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering from Texas
A & M University and a Master of Public Administration from New Mexico State University. She also holds a Master of Pastoral Studies in Theology from Loyola University, New Orleans. She is a registered Professional Engineer in the States of Texas and New Mexico.
In her current position she oversees two large departments with a combined total of nearly 800 employees and a $140 million budget that includes Mass Transit (Streetcar, Fixed Route buses and Paratransit services), Solid Waste Management (trash, recycle, landfills), Code Enforcement (nuisances, environmental health, vector control), and Environmental Engineering (mold, asbestos, ESAs, methane gas, leachate).
