New town manager starts in Flower Mound

Flower Mound’s town manager, James Childers, started his new role Jan. 3.

“I’m drinking from a firehose,” Childers said about his first week in the position.

Childers was the assistant city manager in Irving since 2018, and he worked for a number of other city governments. This is not his first stent working at Flower Mound though. He did an internship for the town in 2003 and later was hired as the town’s human resources generalist.

Now as town manager, Childers equates his position as that of CEO of a corporation who executes the needs of the board of directors, which would be the town council, he said.

“I make it happen for the town council,” he said.

Childers said he is in the unique opportunity where he doesn’t have to come in and fix anything because of the work of his predecessors interim town managers Debra Wallace and Tommy Dalton.

Instead of going in to fix problems, he plans to spend the next few months learning the ins and outs of the town and meeting its residents to develop priorities, he said.

Childers has a bachelor's degree from Midwestern State University and a master's degree in public administration from the University of North Texas, according to the release.