Gregory L. Gracz
Administrator-Division of Personnel Management
Greg received a Bachelor of Science degree, in Business Administration, from Marquette University in 1970. He also has received two Associate’s degrees from Milwaukee Area Technical College—one in Liberal Arts in 1968 and another in Fire Technology in 1983. From 1978 through 2006, Greg was a member of the Milwaukee Fire Department, serving as a Lieutenant in the Department from 1984 through 1998, as a Captain in the Department from 1998 through 2006, and as President and Contract Administrator of the Milwaukee Professional Firefighters Union from 1987 through 2006. In 2007, Greg became the Director of Labor Relations in Milwaukee County. He served in that position until Governor Walker appointed him Director of the Office of State Employment Relations (now DPM) in 2011.
Greg served on the University of Wisconsin Board of Regents from 1999 through 2006, and he was a member of various committees during his tenure. He also has been a member of the Board of Directors of the Survive Alive House, a member of the Governor’s Council for Vocational Education, and a member of the Milwaukee Task Force on Health Care Cost Controls. Greg is the founding member of a fund that raised over $850,000 for families of New York City firefighters impacted by the 9/11 tragedy.