Michael G. Cherkasky
Michael G. Cherkasky is Chairman of the Commission on Public Integrity. He also is Chief Executive Officer for US Investigations Services, Inc. and its subsidiaries. For the past 25 years, Mr. Cherkasky has supported the law enforcement community in numerous oversight and policy development roles.
For the past eight years, Mr. Cherkasky also has served as the Independent Monitor for the Los Angeles Police Department, using his extensive career as an attorney and experience with the law enforcement community to lead an official oversight board.
Early in his career, he served as a law clerk in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio, and later became an Assistant District Attorney in Manhattan, where he served as a trial attorney, Trial Bureau Chief, Chief of the Rackets Bureau, and Chief of the Investigations Division.
In 1994, Mr. Cherkasky joined Kroll, Inc., and founded and led Kroll Monitoring Services. When Kroll, Inc. was acquired by Marsh & McLennan Companies, Inc., Mr. Cherkasky was appointed President and CEO. He held this position until 2008, and joined USIS in July 2008 in the same capacity.
Mr. Cherkasky earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in History and his Juris Doctorate from Case Western Reserve.