Sup. Mark Ridley-Thomas

Venerdì, Marzo 18, 2011
Segment I, 5 AM

Mark Ridley-Thomas

Mark Ridley-Thomas ha rappresentato la quasi 2.3 million people of the Second District on the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors since December 2008. Durante il suo primo anno in carica, he shepherded through an agreement with the University of California to provide medical services at the new Martin Luther King Jr. Ospedale, in programma per la fine del 2012. He also persuaded the Metropolitan Transportation Authority to fund a light rail system from Crenshaw Boulevard to Los Angeles International Airport and move up the opening from 2029 al più presto 2016. Insieme, the hospital and rail projects will generate more than $2 billion in spending and create over 16,000 Offerte di lavoro.

Ridley-Thomas is the first African American man ever to serve on the Los Angeles Board of Supervisors. Il suo distretto comprende Carson, Compton, Culver City, Gardena, Hawthorne, Inglewood e Lynwood, porzioni o tutti 10 Los Angeles City Council Districts and the unincorporated communities of Alondra Park, Atene, Aria, Dominguez, Est Compton, El Camino Village, Firenze, Ladera Heights, Lennox, View Park, Ovest Atene, West Carson, West Compton, Willowbrook and Wiseburn.

Prima della sua elezione al Consiglio, Supervisor Ridley-Thomas served the 26th District in the California State Senate where he chaired the Committee on Business, Professions and Economic Development and its two subcommittees on Professional Sports and Entertainment, and The Economy, Preparazione e sviluppo della forza lavoro. In addition to his chairmanship duties, Ridley-Thomas servita Stanziamenti del Senato, Energia, Utilities e delle comunicazioni; and Health and Public Safety committees.

Nel mese di gennaio 2008, he became Chair of the California Legislative Black Caucus and led the Caucus in unprecedented levels of cooperation and collaboration with counterparts in the Latino, and Asian-Pacific Islander Legislative Caucuses.

His legislative work addressed a broad range of issues with implications for economic and workforce development, assistenza sanitaria, sicurezza pubblica, educazione, la responsabilità di bilancio, consumer protection and civic participation.

Mark Ridley-Thomas è stato eletto a una carica pubblica in 1991 and served with distinction on the Los Angeles City Council for nearly a dozen years and departed as Council President pro Tempore. He later served two terms in the California State Assembly, where he chaired the Assembly Democratic Caucus.

He is widely regarded as the foremost advocate of neighborhood participation in government decision-making. By virtue of his founding the Empowerment Congress, arguably the region’s most successful experiment in neighborhood-based civic engagement, he is considered the founder of the Neighborhood Council movement.

Ridley-Thomas’ political career was preceded by a decade of service as executive director of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference of Greater Los Angeles, che ha seguito una breve ma di successo stint di cinque anni come insegnante di scuola superiore.

He is a graduate of Manual Arts High School in Los Angeles and earned a baccalaureate degree in Social Relations (minore nel governo) e un master in Studi Religiosi (concentration in Christian Ethics) da Immaculate Heart College. Sig.. Ridley-Thomas went on to receive his Ph.D. in Social Ethics and Policy Analysis from the University of Southern California.

E 'sposato con Avis Ridley-Thomas, director of the Los Angeles City Attorney’s Office Dispute Resolution Center. They are the proud parents of twin sons, Sebastian e Sinclair, who graduated from Morehouse College in Atlanta.

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