Escondido City Managers / Acting City Managers

• Garland Gray: 1955 to April 1956
• Lloyd M. Mitchell: May 5, 1956 to January 10, 1968
• David M. Brown: January 24, 1968 to January 1, 1970
• George Patterson: May 5, 1970 to July 14, 1976
• Kenneth Lounsberry: August 1976 to December 31, 1979
• Ray Windsor: January 2, 1980 to April 1, 1982
• Vern Hazen: August 30, 1982 to January 4, 1989
• Douglas K. Clark: July 17, 1989 to June 19, 1997
• Rolf S Gunnarson: October 8, 1997 to July 3, 2003
• Clay Phillips: July 4, 2003 to December 30, 2015
• Graham Mitchell: December 31, 2015 to April 2017
• Jeffrey R. Epp: May 4, 2017 to June 2021
• Sean McGlynn: June 2021 to Present

Acting City Managers

• Jim Johnson: December 29, 1969 to May 4, 1970
• Ray Windsor: July 14, 1976 to August 1976
• Rod Wood: March 17,1982 to August 29, 1982
• Ray Blair: January 16, 1989 to July 14, 1989
• Rolf S Gunnarson: June 20, 1997 to October 8, 1997