Darryl McPherson Biography

DARRYL McPHERSON is currently the City Auditor for the City of Buffalo’s Department of Audit and Control. As a deputy of the City’s elected Comptroller Andrew SanFilippo, Darryl heads the Division of Audit, which audits all City accounts and approves all checks issued by the City, including payroll. He made this move after serving for almost two and half years as Chief Counsel to the Buffalo Fiscal Stability Authority, the control board created by the State to oversee the City of Buffalo’s finances in 2003.

 

McPherson graduated from the University at Buffalo School of Law in 1992. While at the Law School, he served on the Student Bar Association for two terms and became Features Editor for the School’s newspaper, the Opinion. He previously graduated from Canisius High School and the State University College of New York at Buffalo.

 

After a short stint in private practice, he was appointed by Mayor Anthony Masiello to work for the City of Buffalo’s Law Department as an Assistant Corporation Counsel in 1994. During the majority of his time there, he served as counsel to the Common Council, researching and drafting legislation and legal opinions and advising numerous departments, including the Bureau of Administrative Adjudication, the Office of Licenses and the Zoning Board of Appeals. He was appointed as staff attorney to the Charter Revision Commission, which drafted the new City Charter approved by the electors of the City in 1999. In addition to his advisory duties, he negotiated cable and other utility franchises, litigated Charter and other municipal issues, personal injury matters and prosecuted violations of City ordinances. In 2003, he was appointed Deputy Corporation Counsel, the third ranking managing attorney in the department.

 

A member of the Erie County Bar Association since 1992, Darryl is a member of the Municipal and School Law Committee. He is also a member of the American Bar Association, the New York State Bar Association, the Western New York Chapter of the Women’s Bar Association of the State of New York, the Minority Bar Association of Western New York and the New York State Government Finance Officers Association.

 

Darryl was named one of Business First’s Forty Under 40 in 2001. He is a member of Leadership Buffalo, having graduated from the Class of 2003.   He has served on the boards of the Buffalo and Erie County Botanical Gardens Society, Inc., the New Group at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery and is currently Vice President of the City Centre Condominium Association Board of Managers.

 

A lifelong City resident, Darryl enjoys living in downtown Buffalo.