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A CEREMONIAL RESOLUTION
20-308
IN THE COUNCIL OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
December 17, 2014
To honor Linda S. Green upon the occasion of her retirement for completing 45 years of career workforce service.
WHEREAS, Linda S. Green has been a resident of the District of Columbia for more than 45 years;
WHEREAS, Linda S. Green graduated from Hart Junior High School in 1965;
WHEREAS, Linda S. Green, at age 16, was accepted into the piloted Stay-In-School Program that was designed to develop future leaders for career workforce experience, college, and business;
WHEREAS, Linda S. Green, as participant in the Stay-In-School Program, first worked in the Office of Naval Intelligence under Captain Alvin D. Bress at the U.S. Department of the Navy, Office of Naval Intelligence, Naval Ships Division;
WHEREAS, Linda S. Green, as a 1967 Stay-In-School Program participant, became a Junior Special Events Coordinator in an apprenticeship program at the Marriott Food Industry at H Street, N.W., and 17th Street, N.W., where she worked closely with the culinary staff and learned how to plan for banquets and special events;
WHEREAS, Linda S. Green, in the 1968 Stay-In School Program, was hired as a Stay-In-School Student by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (“EEOC”), and demonstrated her business skills and work ethic in the Office of the General Counsel under Deputy Director and attorney Maxine Bethel Cade, Esq., and Director and attorney Evangeline W. Swift;
WHEREAS, Linda S. Green graduated from Ballou Senior High School in 1969;
WHEREAS, Linda S. Green, in the 1969 Stay-In-School Program, was hired via 700 hour appointment as a temporary employee at the EEOC, and later became a full-time, permanent employee at the EEOC in the Office of the General Counsel, Decisions and Interpretation Division, in the Office of Legal Counsel, the Office of Appeals, and then in the Office of the Appellate Division, where she traveled all across the United States with attorneys, prepared all exhibit docket files, gained a wealth of knowledge, and applied what she learned to achieve greater successes;
WHEREAS, Linda S. Green, in 1973, graduated from the Royal Business Institute as a member of the High Society Honors Association;
WHEREAS, Linda S. Green left the Office of the General Counsel at the EEOC in January 1979 to further her career at the U.S. Department of the Interior in the Office of the Secretary, and then was hired to work in the Departmental Office of Equal Employment Opportunity (“EEO”) where the Director was the late Edward E. Shelton, and the Deputy Director was the late John L. Fulbright, Jr.;
WHEREAS, Linda S. Green then worked in the Office of Human Resources in the U.S. Department of the Interior under the leadership of the late Honorable Ruth Bates Harris McKenzie, who was the Director;
WHEREAS, Linda S. Green began working in the EEO Office of the National Park Service under Director Marshall C. Brooks in May 1989;
WHEREAS, Linda S. Green worked for Robert G. Stanton, Director of the National Park Service, and Beverly A. McKnight, Program Manager for the Washington Area Servicing Office Equal Opportunity program, from 1997 until Mr. Stanton’s retirement in 2001, when Linda S. Green returned to the EEO Office of the National Park Service;
WHEREAS, Linda S. Green currently works in the EEO Office of the National Park Service under Mary E. Denery, Program Manager of Policy, Compliance, and Evaluation, and Rose Blankenship, who is the Acting Chief of Equal Employment Opportunity Programs;
WHEREAS, Linda S. Green has an extensive record of public service beyond her years of professional service, including serving as an Emeritus Trustee and member of A.P. Shaw United Methodist Church; an Emeritus Secretary of the United Methodist Women’s Society; a member of The New Macedonia Baptist Church; a member of Sisters to Sisters, Inc.; a member of Bridge the Gap, Inc.; Advisory Neighborhood Commissioner for Single Member District 7E02 and Advisory Neighborhood Commission Vice Chair; the President of the Fort Davis Civic Association; an Emeritus Correspondence Secretary for the Metropolitan Police Department Seventh District Citizens’ Advisory Council; a member of the Metropolitan Police Department Sixth District Citizens’ Advisory Council; a member of the U.S. Secret Service Uniform Division Recruitment Taskforce under Lieutenant Warren F. Crayton, as appointed by Congressman Walter E. Fauntroy; a member of Blacks in Government, Region XI; a member of the Federal Employed Women, Capital Chapter, Department of the Interior; a member of the Community Relations Board for MedStar Washington Hospital Center, where she served on the Interagency Taskforce Committee under John Sullivan; and a member of the ANC Re-zoning Taskforce Committee as appointed by Councilmember Yvette M. Alexander; and
WHEREAS, Linda S. Green has amassed a total of 45 years of dedicated career workforce service.
IT IS HEREBY RESOLVED, BY THE COUNCIL OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, that the Council of the District of Columbia congratulates Linda S. Green on her retirement and honors her for 45 years of career service.
Sec. 2. This resolution may be cited as the “Linda S. Green Retirement Recognition Resolution of 2014”.
Sec. 3. This resolution shall take effect immediately upon the first date of publication in the District of Columbia Register.
