About Supervisor Clancy
Supervisor Ryan Clancy, re-elected for a second term in 2022, was elected in 2020 after knocking on more than 10,000 doors (and, during the pandemic, then making hundreds of phone connections) with residents from across the 4th District. Ryan is the first socialist to have been elected to public office in Milwaukee since 1956.
Ryan has a bachelor's degree in English and secondary education from Beloit College, and a master's degree in negotiation, conflict resolution and peacebuilding from California State University, Dominguez Hills, with coursework on the ground in Israel and Palestine.
A lifelong activist, his advocacy has taken him to the Philippines, where he served as a Peace Corps volunteer, to Indonesia, where he trained to do unarmed protective accompaniment for human rights volunteers, and to Iraq, where he worked with students and protested the occupation in 2003. Closer to home, in Virginia he worked with youth from areas of conflict around the world, protested at Standing Rock, and has been arrested or risked arrest protesting for immigrant rights in Milwaukee and Racine.
A frequent volunteer with disaster relief organizations, Ryan has volunteered in shelters in areas of natural disasters, as well as warming rooms in Milwaukee County. He also regularly volunteers as a legal observer with the ACLU.
Ryan taught for Milwaukee Public Schools for years, first as a substitute teacher, where he became familiar with schools and families across the city, and then in a project-based MPS school, and has continued to advocate for public schools, and all students.
Since 2014, Ryan and his wife Becky have run a bar/restaurant/community center/entertainment complex in the Polonia neighborhood. Based on that experience, he founded the Progressive Restaurant and Activists of Wisconsin Network, which advocates for higher wages, paid time-off and better working conditions for employees in the service industry.
Ryan and Becky live in the Bay View neighborhood with their five children: Desmond, James, Alex, Sebastian and Fiona, their friend Carlos, and a hedgehog.
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Press Releases
May-25-2023
Today, the Milwaukee County Board of Supervisors adopted three resolutions authored by Supervisor Ryan Clancy and Supervisor Juan Miguel Martinez. The resolutions initiated a comprehensive probe into the Milwaukee County jail, took a stance in favor of shared revenue and local autonomy, and created an additional coordinator position for local committees.
Mar-21-2023
On the morning of Thursday, March 16, a 37-year-old man was found unconscious and unresponsive in his cell at the Milwaukee County Jail and died shortly after. This marked the fourth death at the jail in the past nine months, prompting renewed calls for an audit of the facility.
May-09-2023
Yesterday, two Milwaukee County standing committees passed resolutions advocating for increased local control and oversight. One requests a research and analysis plan for the Milwaukee County Criminal Justice Facility (CJF). The other advocates for shared revenue and local autonomy.
Jan-13-2023
Longtime labor leader Bruce Colburn is retiring after more than 50 years fighting for workers’ rights at the local, state, and national level. Members of the County Board released the following statement.
May-05-2023
On May 4, 2023, the Assembly Committee on Local Government held a public hearing on Assembly Bill 245, which proposes changes to county and municipal aid in Wisconsin. Supervisors Peter Burgelis, Ryan Clancy and Vice-Chair Sequanna Taylor attended the meeting.
Dec-15-2022
Today the Board of Supervisors adopted legislation authored by Supervisor Ryan Clancy which authorizes and directs the Community Reintegration Center (CRC) to produce a plan to provide commissary services in-house by April 30, 2023.
May-03-2023
Supervisor Ryan Clancy is encouraging members of the public to participate in two upcoming committees on Monday, May 8, 2023, the Committee on Judiciary, Law Enforcement and General Services (JLEGS), and the Committee on Intergovernmental Relations (IGR).
Dec-08-2022
Today the County Board’s Finance Committee recommended for adoption a resolution authored by Supervisor Ryan Clancy to place an advisory referendum on the April 4, 2023, election ballot to measure public opinion on Wisconsin’s abortion law.
Mar-27-2023
A recently released independent report on Milwaukee County’s groundbreaking Right to Counsel program—Eviction Free MKE—found that it successfully prevented
evictions and involuntary moves, and secured rent assistance for residents.
Dec-01-2022
On Tuesday, November 29, Milwaukee County Transit System (MCTS) and Amalgamated Transit Union (ATU) Local 998, the union that represents MCTS bus drivers and mechanics, reached an agreement on a 3-year contract.
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In The News
May-18-2023
A task force working on security for the Milwaukee County Transit System (MCTS) is looking at replacing the current private contractors with sheriff’s deputies, non-law enforcement “transit rangers” or some mix of both.
Mar-28-2023
Milwaukee County’s Right to Counsel Program, providing free legal representation for low-income Milwaukee County residents faced with eviction, has been a success, a new report shows.
May-17-2023
Milwaukee County has big plans for its Community Reintegration Center (CRC), an incarceration facility formerly known as the House of Corrections. By creating a diversified network of programs and services and avoiding overcrowding, officials hope to repurpose the facility to better reintegrate its residents back into the community.
Mar-24-2023
Roughly 67,000 eligible Milwaukee County residents will now benefit from a countywide push to erase crippling medical debt as a part of a new initiative sweeping the cities and counties across the United States.
May-03-2023
If if weren’t for comedian John Oliver, there probably wouldn’t be an innovative Milwaukee County program to erase $153 million in debt for county residents.
Mar-24-2023
The company that provides food in Milwaukee County correctional facilities secured an 8% price hike from the Milwaukee County Board Thursday.
Apr-20-2023
The Milwaukee County Board approved a deal Thursday that will see the Harley-Davidson Foundation provide $350,000 for improvements and maintenance of Highland Park in exchange for renaming it Harley Park.
Mar-23-2023
Following four deaths in less than a year at the Milwaukee County Jail, two county supervisors are calling for a formal audit of the facility.