As Chief Counsel to the Philadelphia Revenue Department, Frances Ruml Beckley leads the unit responsible for enforcing the collection of Philadelphia taxes and agency receivables, for advising the administration and City Council on tax issues, and for representing the City in trial and appellate tax cases. She graduated from Harvard-Radcliffe College, Yale Law School, and NYU’s LLM in Taxation program. She is a past chair of the Philadelphia Bar Association’s State and Local Tax Committee and an adjunct professor at Temple University’s Beasley School of Law. She and her husband, Fred, have been members of Old Pine since they moved to Philadelphia in 1990; she has served as an elder, Sunday School organizer and on a pastor nominating committee.
