Valerie Lemmie Position: Cincinnati city manager Age: 51 Length of time in Cincinnati: 16 months Lemmie was unavailable to be interviewed. Comments from our archives: On women, race and getting things done: I've always felt that I had to be twice as good to get half the credit. Women and African-Americans have had so hard of a time getting here to begin with. And then when we get here, no matter how many times you do it well, and do it right, people still have questions: "Well, yeah, but can she do this?"

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