Leadership Team

Budget Director Shallah Graham

Shallah comes to BBMR with nearly 20 years of experience, including 14 years in police finance executive leadership.  Most recently, she served for seven years as the chief financial officer of the Baltimore Police Department. Joining the department in 2019 as part of a new leadership team, she was tasked with driving lasting organizational change. In her first year alone, she successfully navigated unprecedented challenges—including the pandemic and major cultural shifts—by restructuring the budget for greater accountability and developing cost-saving measures without reducing city services. Over her tenure, her executive oversight expanded to include asset management, human resources, and sworn recruitment. In this role, she successfully implemented more than 40 processes to enhance overall efficiency and transparency.

Prior to her work in Baltimore, she spent nearly a decade in fiscal leadership roles for the City of Fort Worth. Her success in streamlining processes and establishing value-added budgeting practices led to her promotion to assistant director of police. In that position, she managed fiscal services, human resources, information technology, research and planning, policy, and safety, while also serving as the budget director for the Fort Worth Crime Control and Prevention District. Her extensive background in local government also includes foundational roles in the Parks and Community Services and Economic Development departments for Fort Worth and Tyler, Texas, as well as previous experience with the U.S. Department of Defense.

She holds an MBA from the University of Texas at Tyler and a BBA in finance from Florida Atlantic University.