Fesia Davenport '95

Bio

Fesia Davenport was appointed Chief Executive Officer of Los Angeles County in January 2021 by the county Board of Supervisors where she manages the day-to-day operations of the nation’s largest county government. She is responsible for overseeing the County’s expansive $49 billion-plus budget, maintaining labor relations with the County’s 64 bargaining units, managing administrative operations of the County’s 39 departments, and ensuring the successful implementation of key priorities of the Board of Supervisors including sustainability, poverty alleviation, addressing homelessness, and justice initiatives aimed a diversity, equity, and inclusion.

With a County career spanning more than two decades, Ms. Davenport has been a driving force behind transformative initiatives, fostering collaboration across departments, public-private sectors, and governmental agencies. Her leadership has played a critical role in budgetary, fiscal, and programmatic undertakings which has positioned the County to do better – these include: repeatedly balancing the County’s budget while ensuring key priorities of the Board of Supervisors are funded; obtaining the highest credit rating in the County’s history from rating agencies, driving legislative efforts to prevent homelessness through expanded data sharing, establishing (in less than 18 months) four new County Departments with a firth department on the way, and saving the County billions of dollars in seismic retrofit costs by acquiring alas A $200M building to house County administrative staff.

Before becoming CEO, she held several executive level positions within the County. A graduate of California State University, Long Beach, she earned a master’s degree in public administration from California State University Northridge, and a law degree from the University of California, Hastings College of the Law (now UC Law San Francisco). Passionate about history—especially family history—she spends her free time researching genealogy or enjoying a performance of Hamilton – which she has seen more than she cares to admit.