Stanley Jackson has served the District government for more than 23 years, most recently as director of the Department of Community and Housing Development (DHCD). Mr. Jackson has led his team at DHCD to address the District's housing crisis and to develop affordable housing, despite the challenge of the robust real estate market. Since Mr. Jackson took the helm in July 2001, the department has developed more than 6,700 units of newly constructed and rehabilitated affordable housing units and has helped more than 1,800 District residents become first-time homeowners.

Mr. Jackson served as chief of staff to the District of Columbia Chief Financial Officer (CFO) from May 2000 to July 2001. In this role, he helped the District of Columbia achieve financial recovery by working with the CFO to guide the organization through the delivery of the fourth Comprehensive Annual Financial Report. Mr. Jackson was also instrumental in working with the CFO to assist the District in attaining bond-rating upgrades, ensuring a smooth budget process, and enabling the first Tax Increment Financing deal—the Spy Museum—to be accomplished.

Mr. Jackson joined the District government in 1981 as a management analyst at the Office of Tax and Revenue (OTR), where he later became division manager, chief tax enforcement officer, and chief of Assessment Services Division. From 1995 until his appointment as chief of staff, Mr. Jackson served as OTR's director of customer service administration. As director he was responsible for planning, directing, implementing, managing, and monitoring the organization's customer service operations. Due to his efforts, customer service outreach grew significantly during the yearly tax season, and real property and delinquent tax information became more visible.

Throughout his tenure at OTR, Mr. Jackson was instrumental in designing and implementing a number of innovative programs to increase tax revenues for the District. As chief of the Assessment Services Division, Mr. Jackson conducted the annual real property tax sale and implemented the Tax Lien Securitization Program. As the chief tax enforcement officer, Mr. Jackson was responsible for developing and implementing the Unclaimed Property Program and the Central Collection Program.

Mr. Jackson received a bachelor's degree from the University of North Carolina at Fayetteville, has done graduate work in business administration at Howard University, and recently completed a senior executive training course at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government. He is a member of several professional organizations including the National Association of Black Public Administrators, the National Association of Tax Administrators and the Howard University Advisory Board for Public Policy.