People / Government & civic life
Director of Human Resources, City of Tulsa
Personnel administration, pension governance and senior public-safety hiring.
Erica Felix-Warwick leads Human Resources for the City of Tulsa. The department supports employment, compensation and classification, occupational health, workers’ compensation, employee development, insurance and retirement services. She also appears on the City’s Municipal Employees’ Retirement Plan Board roster in a department-head seat. Those roles place her in both workforce administration and collective pension governance.
The Journal Record identified Felix-Warwick as personnel director in November 2010 while reporting on Chuck Jordan’s selection as police chief. Its account places her on the panel that interviewed candidates. KJRH’s 2024 police-chief search report again identifies her as HR director on an internal interview panel. These dated records establish her involvement in senior hiring at two points in that interval; they do not by themselves establish her initial appointment date or uninterrupted service in an identical position.
Reported as personnel director on the candidate interview panel.
Signed management response in the City Auditor recruitment and retention report.
Named in reporting about another police-chief interview panel.
Presented a non-sworn workforce update to a Council committee.
Official pages name the HR director and list her retirement-board seat.
People, institutions and the relationships between them
Each step below represents a documented relationship. Dates and roles belong to the individual links; a path can span different periods.
Employment in City administration and a seat on its pension board are separate relationships; board decisions are collective.
2 documented relationships · Historical and current roles remain distinct.
Human Resources director
Verified October9,2026
Named official roster. Exact appointment or employment effective dates not independently established. MERP central roster is newer than employee-information page with expired2025 term.
Department-head board seat
Roster checked October9,2026; listed expiration December31,2028
Named official roster. Exact appointment or employment effective dates not independently established. MERP central roster is newer than employee-information page with expired2025 term.
Interpretation
The Council’s account of its April 16, 2025 Budget and Special Projects Committee meeting identifies Felix-Warwick as the presenter of an update on non-sworn City employees. The discussion connected recruitment and retention with the ability to deliver municipal services. This gives a concrete point of public accountability: HR presents workforce information to elected officials considering the budget. The meeting summary is evidence of that reporting role, not proof that any particular staffing outcome resulted from her decisions alone.
Interpretation
The central City board roster lists Felix-Warwick in the retirement board’s department-head seat with a stated term ending December 31, 2028. The employee retirement-information page describes a seven-member board, mayoral appointments with Council approval and board responsibility for investment choices. Her institutional relevance therefore extends beyond managing HR operations to participation in a body that governs employee retirement assets. A board seat does not establish individual control over investments or ownership of plan assets.
A 2017 City Auditor report says the HR director requested employee feedback on recruiting and retention. Its five focus groups identified concerns about pay, benefits and support from HR. The auditors recommended clearer communication and public reporting on customer-service goals. In her signed response, Felix-Warwick agreed that pay and benefits mattered, said a strategy for more consistent raises had been sent to the mayor and budget team, and committed to better measurement of HR service while describing limited resources. This was a bounded focus-group study, with police participants selected by availability, rather than a census of employee views. The report records criticism and management commitments; later implementation and results require separate evidence.
Check the record
Research checked 2026-10-10. Roles and financial figures retain their source dates. Sections appear only when supported material is available; an omitted section is not a finding that no such relationship exists.
primary · Checked 2026-10-04
Board investment powers and mayor/Council appointment process; Wagner department-head seat, stated expiration December 31, 2026. Some other roster dates are stale.
primary · Checked 2026-10-09
Named director and department responsibilities
primary · Checked 2026-10-09
MERP department-head seat #1: Felix-Warwick; displayed from February10,2005 to December31,2028. Roster dates, not independently verified appointment event.
primary · Checked 2026-10-09
April16,2025 HR presentation to Budget and Special Projects Committee; summary contains inconsistent turnover labels, numerical claims excluded.
reporting · Checked 2026-10-09
2024 search; internal panel includes HR director
reporting · Source date 2010-11-12 · Checked 2026-10-09
Panel screened Chuck Jordan and other applicants; Felix-Warwick identified as personnel director
primary · Source date 2017-10 · Checked 2026-10-09
Printed pages1–2 methodology,7 recommendations,8 signed management response. Five focus groups; police selection exception.
primary · Source date 2023-02-15 · Checked 2026-10-10
Page1 essential tasks; page2 qualification alternatives. Classification is not evidence of the incumbent’s degree or earnings.
