Senator-elect Doug Jones hires diverse staff for senior positions
http://www.al.com/news/index.ssf/2018/01/senator-elect_doug_jones_hires.html
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...g-jones-picks-african-american-chief-of-staff
https://www.theroot.com/sen-elect-doug-jones-taps-black-man-as-his-chief-of-st-1821712778
Chief of Staff Dana Gresham (left) and Transitional Advisor Sonceria Ann Bishop-Berry (right)
Answering calls to bring more diversity to staffing for the U.S. Senate, senator-elect Doug Jones' transition team announced Tuesday the hiring of key senior staff positions, including a black Birmingham native who has been selected as chief of staff.
Jones will be sworn in as the 49th Democratic member of the Senate in Washington on Wednesday. He defeated his Republican opponent, Roy Moore, during the Dec. 12 special election to fill Jeff Session's seat.
Dana Gresham, a 1989 graduate of A. H. Parker High School, has been tapped for the chief of staff position. He has over 22 years of government experience.
In 2009, he was nominated by then-president Barack Obama to serve as the assistant secretary for governmental affairs, a position Gresham held for all eight years of the Obama administration.
Gresham also served 14 years on Capitol Hill. During 11 of those years, he served in senior staff positions within the Alabama congressional delegation. Before his hiring as chief of staff for Jones, Gresham worked as a consultant for Federal City Council, a nonprofit organization promoting economic development in the Washington, D.C. area.
Gresham's hiring makes Jones the only Democratic senator to have a black chief of staff, according to the Washington Post. There are two Hispanic women who hold the same title on the Democratic side. Two Republican senators have black chiefs of staff.
Jones' team also hired Sonceria Ann Bishop-Berry, a black woman who is also from Birmingham, as transitional advisor. Berry is a J. H. Phillips High School and University of North Alabama graduate. She moved to D.C. in 1979 to work for late senator Howell Heflin. Since Heflin's retirement, she has worked for many senators, including Daniel Patrick Moynihan, John Edwards, Tom Carper and as Deputy Chief of Staff to Senator Patrick Leahy.
http://www.al.com/news/index.ssf/2018/01/senator-elect_doug_jones_hires.html
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...g-jones-picks-african-american-chief-of-staff
https://www.theroot.com/sen-elect-doug-jones-taps-black-man-as-his-chief-of-st-1821712778
Chief of Staff Dana Gresham (left) and Transitional Advisor Sonceria Ann Bishop-Berry (right)
Answering calls to bring more diversity to staffing for the U.S. Senate, senator-elect Doug Jones' transition team announced Tuesday the hiring of key senior staff positions, including a black Birmingham native who has been selected as chief of staff.
Jones will be sworn in as the 49th Democratic member of the Senate in Washington on Wednesday. He defeated his Republican opponent, Roy Moore, during the Dec. 12 special election to fill Jeff Session's seat.
Dana Gresham, a 1989 graduate of A. H. Parker High School, has been tapped for the chief of staff position. He has over 22 years of government experience.
In 2009, he was nominated by then-president Barack Obama to serve as the assistant secretary for governmental affairs, a position Gresham held for all eight years of the Obama administration.
Gresham also served 14 years on Capitol Hill. During 11 of those years, he served in senior staff positions within the Alabama congressional delegation. Before his hiring as chief of staff for Jones, Gresham worked as a consultant for Federal City Council, a nonprofit organization promoting economic development in the Washington, D.C. area.
Gresham's hiring makes Jones the only Democratic senator to have a black chief of staff, according to the Washington Post. There are two Hispanic women who hold the same title on the Democratic side. Two Republican senators have black chiefs of staff.
Jones' team also hired Sonceria Ann Bishop-Berry, a black woman who is also from Birmingham, as transitional advisor. Berry is a J. H. Phillips High School and University of North Alabama graduate. She moved to D.C. in 1979 to work for late senator Howell Heflin. Since Heflin's retirement, she has worked for many senators, including Daniel Patrick Moynihan, John Edwards, Tom Carper and as Deputy Chief of Staff to Senator Patrick Leahy.
