Public Management (PM), ICMA's award-winning magazine in its 107th year of publication, received two awards in the 37th Annual APEX Awards for Publication Excellence.

PM received a Grand Award, the competition's highest honor, for a series of three articles in 2024 from the magazine's column, Women in Leadership. Powered by ICMA's SheLeadsGov initiative, this special column in PM is authored by women in the local government profession about “leading while female.” 

Out of more than a thousand entries, just 100 Grand Award Winners were selected. The three Women in Leadership articles that were honored: 

• WOMEN IN LEADERSHIP: “A Woman as City Manager? It Will Never Work”, written by Ann M. Mitchell, chief administrative officer/city manager of Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada.
• WOMEN IN LEADERSHIP: The Pressure of Pretty, written by Melissa Wiley, deputy town administrator of Erie, Colorado, USA.
• WOMEN IN LEADERSHIP: “City Momager” and Everything in Between, written by Christine Cordon, city manager of Westminster, California, USA. 

In addition, PM received an Award of Excellence for the magazine's March 2024 issue, which focused on ethical leadership and political neutrality. In 2024, ICMA commemorated the 100th anniversary of the ICMA Code of Ethics. The association's year-long celebration included monthly features in PM, but the March issue was the pinnacle of ethics content in the magazine, including such feature articles as: 

• To Inform or Not to Inform: The ethics behind keeping your governing body in the know, by Robert J. Wood and Alan Bojorquez.
• Knowing When to Leave: 10 indications that it may be time to resign from your local government position, by James Malloy, ICMA-CM.
• Defending American Democracy at the Local Level, by Dr. Frank Benest, ICMA-CM, Chantal Cotton Gaines, and Rod Gould, ICMA-CM.
• Public Ethics and Fairness in Localities: Ethical fairness involves different conceptions of need, deservingness, and entitlement, and is at the heart of public action, by Barry Quirk.
• Exploring Ethical Leadership in Mexican Public Administration by Ana Elizárraga.

ICMA and the PM team are proud to have been recognized for their work in 2025, and are grateful to the ICMA members and other contributors from local government who take the time to share their stories in PM magazine.