Maxine Kurtz
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Mazine Kurtz is author of Invisible Cage, A Memoir; and City of Destiny: Denver in the Making, with Ralph Conant. She holds a master's degree in government management and a doctorate in jurisprudence from the University of Denver. She became head of the Denver Planning Office in 1947 at the age of twenty-three and was the first woman to organize and direct the planning department of a major American city. She went on to become one of the foremost city planners in America, director of the unique Denver Model Cities program and, later in her career, an innovator in the field of public personnel, now known as human-resources management. Her career covered a broad range of public policy areas in local, state, and federal government, several of which were new on the scene in the 1940's and 1950's, but all of which are current today. She lives in Denver.
