BFM Commissioner Liza Clark to Step Down at End of Year
PIERRE, S.D. – Today, Liza Clark, Governor Noem’s Chief of Finance and Commissioner of the South Dakota Bureau of Finance and Management (BFM), announced her resignation, effective at the end of the year.
“I admire Liza’s hard work, tenacity, and long dedication to keeping South Dakota’s fiscal house in order,” said Governor Kristi Noem. “Over her time as BFM Commissioner, she helped provide funding for crucial projects across the state while growing our budget reserves by 92%. She is a tremendous steward of taxpayer dollars, and we’ll miss having her on the team.”
Liza has served as BFM Commissioner since December 2016, spanning both the Noem and the Daugaard administrations. Her sixteen years of service to the state include more than two years as a policy advisor for Governor Daugaard, six years as Chief Budget Analyst at BFM, one year as Senior Budget Analyst at BFM, and two years as a Budget Analyst at BFM.
“I’m honored that Governor Noem asked me to serve on her executive team and lead BFM for the last three years. Due to all the challenges we’ve encountered, nothing about the budget has been normal, but South Dakota is in a phenomenal financial situation as a result of our approach,” said Liza Clark, BFM Commissioner. “My kids are only going to be little for so long, and I’m looking forward to striking a better work-life balance. The team at BFM is second to none, and it’s been such a privilege to work with them over the past 16 years. I’m comfortable moving on because I know the state is in great hands.”
A South Dakota native, Liza graduated from Miller High School and holds a bachelor’s degree in finance and economics from Northern State University and a master’s of business administration from the University of South Dakota.
Liza and her husband Zach, a small business owner, live in Ft. Pierre with their two daughters. Liza enjoys spending time with her family, playing a variety of sports, and having fun on the Missouri River.
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WOW –did I say WOW, double WOW
Does anyone last in this administration?
How many does that make it that have left Noem’s administrative?
Liza will be sorely missed. SD’s loss is her young family’s gain. May God richly bless them as they write their next chapter.
Leaving for personal reasons….classic
That gives the Noem haters a chance to speculate, hypothesize, conjecture, and theorize on websites.
Trying to make a news story out of one woman deciding to quit her job is silly: women are leaving the workforce everywhere. As the cost of childcare, transportation, and taxation rise, 2-earner families make less and less financial sense.
And the whole supply chain thing isn’t helping either; just this week the shelves of pasta were nearly empty and I contemplated the prospect of homemade noodles. Noodles??? From scratch??? What’s next, making soap and baking bread?! A return to 19th century homemaking may be the future and it’ll be a full time job just keeping the kids clean and fed.
Before women can return to the workforce the U.S. Secretary of Transportation needs to get off his own maternity leave and get the wheels turning again.
That might be true if it was one person….but the exodus of this administration has been remarkable
The reason for the decision is obvious, if you give it context.
The head of BFM, the office that handles all the budgeting and is responsible for analyzing federal programs that involve spending federal dollars (along with many other fiscal responsibilities), has been forced into overdrive by successive COVID relief bills.
Liza has carried a massive load, both in hours and in responsibilities, due to these two federal bills. We are lucky we kept her this long
Thank you Liza for all you have done for our state. You will be greatly missed by us, But I bet there are some very happy kids at home who get their mom back.
The haters always love to try to make hay out of nothing. I suspect the simple truth is that as Lee said, she’s been in overdrive for far too long, and is ready for a break, hang out with the kids, and at some point to possibly go make real money.
No hater here, but when you have as many people quit that have in Noem’s administration you have to ask why. She is on her 4th chief of staff in less than 4 years. To me, that sounds like she is very difficult to work with.
Nicely put Brock. Liza is intelligent, talented and hardworking. She will be missed and it’s definitely South Dakota’s loss she is leaving. Liza will be hard to replace. I can only imagine how happy her family is to have her back full time.
Quick! Check and see whether any of Noem’s kids recently got a job in that department!
It’s going to be interesting to see what the budget looks like and then defend it with Liza leaving.