Erika Coombs provides underwriting, financial advisory, placement agent and consulting services to school districts, special districts and municipal governments. She has worked in public finance since 2004 working with a wide variety of credit types and municipal bond transactions mostly in Arizona and New Mexico. She specializes in the K-12 education sector, Coombs’s experience includes assistance with more than 80 bond and override elections and more than 200 financings in Arizona. 

Coombs is a past Board member of Women in Public Finance (WPF), President of the Mountain Region Chapter WPF, a Board member of National Federation of Municipal Analysts MARMOT Chapter, Arizona’s Women Leading Government and Scottsdale Art’s Young Professional program, AG2. She is also Co-Chair of the Communications Committee of GFOA Women in Public Finance Network (WPFN). She is a graduate of Valley Leadership Institute Class 38 and Scottsdale Leadership Class 32.

Coombs is a graduate of the Barrett Honors College at Arizona State University with a Bachelor of Arts degree. She also holds a Master’s degree in Public Administration from Arizona State University. She is a fifth-generation Arizona native, an identical twin and her favorite person calls her “Mama.”