Mary King
In 1988, Mary V. King became the first African American woman to be elected an Alameda County Supervisor. She was re-elected twice and served as Board President for two years.
Upon leaving office in 2001, Mary became a private consultant specializing in government affairs, regional housing, land-use, and transportation issues. In 2004, she was recruited to become the Assistant General Manager for Communications and External Affairs at the Alameda Contra Costa Transit District, and, in 2009, she was appointed to head the transit district
in the position she now holds as Interim General Manager.
She has always been a staunch advocate for lower income residents and has worked in her public and private life to better conditions that affect their lives including land use planning, transportation and transit services, health and social services programs. Prior to leaving her office on the Alameda County Board of Supervisors, Mary funded the effort that resulted in creation of Youth UpRising, a nationally recognized youth empowerment program in East Oakland that transformed an abandoned County-owned building into a youth-inspired center with health, educational, and recreation activities...this serves as one of her main legacies of services to Alameda County residents.
In addition, the Mary V. King Health Education Center is named in her honor as part of the Eastmont Wellness Center in Oakland
