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Gloria D. GrayEXPERIENCE. INTEGRITY. PROVEN LEADERSHIP.
Gloria D. Gray was elected to the West Basin Municipal Water District (West Basin) Board of Directors in 2006 and is the first African-American woman elected to this Board in its 65 years. She represents the Division II cities of Inglewood, South Ladera Heights, Lennox and the areas of Athens, Howard and Ross-Sexton. She served as President of the Board of Directors in 2010. In 2009, Gray was appointed to the Metropolitan Water District (MWD) Board of Directors to serve as one of two West Basin representatives. She is the 1st African-American Woman to serve as Vice Chair of the MWD Board, was the 1st African-American to Chair a Board meeting in the 85-year agency history and serves on the Executive Committee, Communications and Legislative Committee, Water Planning and Stewardship Committee, Organization, Personnel and Technology Committee, and Special Committee on Bay-Delta. In April 2010, former Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger signed into law the creation of the Delta Stewardship Council. Gray was appointed to the Council by Assembly Speaker Emeritus Karen Bass. and and is the 1st woman and African American to serve on the council. Prior to her service in the water community, Gray dedicated a 36-year career to the Los Angeles County Departments of Health and Human Services in the areas of community relations, administration, health care management and human resources and has been active in local government and community organizations. Gray is a proud to be a 30 year member of SEIU 721 and 20+ years with AFSCME labor organizations. In 2011, she met with stakeholders from up and down the State and suggested the Delta Council hold public forums to gain broader knowledge in order to develop a comprehensive Delta Plan. Also, she was invited and made presentations on the status of the Delta Plan and water resources management to the Association of California Water Agencies, Southern California Water Committee, Urban Water Institute, Council for Watershed Health, Los Angeles African American Public Policy Institute, California Latino Water Coalition Delta Summit, Leadership Southern California and Water Environment Federation Technical Conference. In March 2009, Gray was appointed by the L.A. County Board of Supervisors to serve on a water quality Community Task Force (Task Force), which is part of the County’s Clean Water, Clean Beaches Initiative to address pollution in our local waterways that include rivers, lakes, bays, beaches, and coastal waters. In her duties on the Task Force, Director Gray will review programs and policies intended to clean up our polluted waterways and watersheds and will address how to fund them. COMMUNITY & PUBLIC SERVICE Gloria Gray initiated the Local Business Enterprise Program and Local Banking Program that allows local businesses to better compete for work and enhances the local community within West Basin’s service area. Prior to her service in the water community, Gray dedicated a 36-year career to the Los Angeles County Departments of Health and Human Services in the areas of community relations, administration, health care management and human resources and has been active in local government and community organizations. In 2009, she was appointed to the Inglewood Unified School District Personnel Commission (classified employees). In March 2012, she was reappointed 3rd-Chair to the Inglewood Personnel Commission to ensure merit system principles are followed. Gray, an Inglewood resident, was elected to the Inglewood Unified School District Board of Education in 1995, retiring after serving two terms. In that time, she earned the respect of her colleagues who appointed her President and Vice President for two terms. Prior to her service on the school board, Gray was elected to serve as an Executive Board Member for the Los Angeles County Democratic Party Central Committee 51st Assembly District from 1994-1998. In 2003, she was appointed and re-appointed in 2007 to the Los Angeles County Hospitals and Health Care Delivery Commission by the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors. She is the co-founder and past-President of the Black Health Services Action Committee and Black Organizations Alliance and has served on the Boards of the King/Drew Medical Center, Charles Drew University of Sciences and Medicine, Los Angeles County Community Action Board, Maxine Waters Employment Preparation Center, KCET, Los Angeles County Democratic Club Central Committee, Southwest Community College, South Bay Workforce Investment Board, Black Women’s Forum, Inglewood Neighborhood Housing Services, Inglewood Y.W.C.A., Inglewood Chamber of Commerce, Inglewood Leadership Council, LAX Area Community Advisory Committee and South Central Multi-Purpose Senior Citizen Center. EDUCATION Gray earned her Bachelor of Science Degree in the Business Administration Program at the University of Redlands and her Health Services Management Certificate from the University of California Los Angeles. She earned a Louis Allen Management Certificate from the Los Angeles County Department of Health Services, where she spent her entire 36-year career, and earned her Masters in Governance Certificate from the California School Boards Association in 2002 after completing a two-year program. She also earned her Governance Certificate from the Special Districts Board Management Institute’s two-year program. |