Isabel Cumming CFE, CIA

Isabel Mercedes Cumming is the Inspector General of Baltimore City, she is the first woman and Latina to ever be named to the post in January of 2018. The Office of the Inspector General (OIG) has flourished under her leadership having quadrupled the number of hotline complaints, achieving independence for the office and successfully growing the office from six to eighteen employees. The OIG has taken over both the Ethics and the Whistleblower functions in Baltimore City. The OIG has had numerous high-profile cases and the OIG was able to achieve fifteen million dollars of documented savings or waste for the citizens of Baltimore under her tenure. In 2019, she was elected to the Board of Directors of the Association of Inspector Generals and serves as the First Vice President and Chair of the Finance Committee. For six years prior, she was the Assistant Inspector General of Investigations for the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority system overseeing 200 reports of investigation and a team of fourteen. Previously she was the Chief of the Economic Crimes/Special Prosecutions Unit of the Prince George’s County State’s Attorney’s Office for over seven years. She started one of the first mortgage fraud units in the nation. Prior she was with the Economic Crimes Unit of Baltimore City for over four years handling hundreds of white-collar crime cases including identity theft, embezzlement and arson. For over six years she was an Assistant State Prosecutor with the Maryland State Prosecutor's Office handling high profile cases of elected officials throughout Maryland.