On March 3,1994,Emery's unusually abrupt firing was the subject of nationwide news when Hillary Clinton dismissed him for communicating with former first lady Barbara Bush.[10][11][12][13] Despite passing several FBI investigations and background checks,Emery was fired by Hillary Clinton for "an incredible lack of discretion" after communicating twice with the former first lady.[11][12][14] He was the first-ever White House usher to be fired.[7] A White House usher does not typically change with administrations.[9]White House Chief UsherGary J. Walters was not permitted by the White House to testify before a Congressional subcommittee on Emery's dismissal. This led to some suspicions on Capitol Hill that the White House was attempting to avoid scrutiny about the firing.[15]
Howard County administrator
After his dismissal from the White House,Emery worked for eleven months as a computer consultant.[16] In March 1995,he was appointed council administrator of Howard County,Maryland,replacing former University System of Maryland assistant vice-chancellor Sheila Tolliver.[9][17] As the council administrator,he oversaw a staff of 25 people with an operating budget of about $1 million.[18] Views on his tenure are split along party lines.[6] He has earned the praise of Republican Council Chairman Charles C. Feaga and Allan H. Kittleman.[6][16] In June 1996,Emery publicly clashed with Democratic Councilman C. Vernon Gray over his alleged misuse of county funds and resources to aid in his campaign for a position with the National Association of Counties (NAOC).[19] Weeks later,Gray wrongfully accused Emery of leaking NAOC campaign letters to The Baltimore Sun.[20] Emery was vindicated by the Howard County Police Department;Gray subsequently found his letters in a different file in his office.[21] Effective December 4,1998,Emery resigned when Democrats regained the majority on the Howard County Council.[22][23]
Later years
After his time as a council administrator,Emery returned to the federal government as a supervisory information technology specialist at the Architect of the Capitol (AOC) where he later served as the director of information resources management.[8][24][25] Emery was promoted to chief enterprise architect of the AOC beginning in 2007.[8] In this capacity,he oversaw the enterprise and technology management of the U.S. Capitol,Senate,the House of Representatives,the Library of Congress,and the Supreme Court.[8] He contributed,along with other information enterprise professionals from the federal government,private sector,and academia,to the publication of The Integrated Enterprise Life Cycle:Enterprise Architecture,Investment Management,and System Development.[8] With colleagues at the AOC and the National Science Foundation,Emery also published a paper for the 40th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences.[26] In 2009,he became the chief information officer of the AOC.[27]
↑ Proceedings of the 40th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences: January 3-6, 2007, Big Island, Hawaii: abstracts and CD-ROM of full papers. Sprague, Ralph H., IEEE Computer Society. Los Alamitos, Calif.: IEEE Computer Society Press. 2007. ISBN978-0769527550. OCLC137225282.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
↑ Emery, Christopher B.; Armour, Frank (December 31, 2009). "The Integrated Enterprise". FedTech. Retrieved January 17, 2018.
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