Fesia Davenport was appointed Chief Executive Officer of Los Angeles County in January 2021, assuming leadership of the nation’s largest county government. She is responsible for overseeing the County’s expansive $49.2 billion-plus budget, maintaining labor relations with the County’s 64 bargaining units, managing enterprise administrative operations of the County’s 38 departments, and ensuring the successful implementation of key priorities of the Board of Supervisors, including sustainability, poverty alleviation, addressing homelessness, and supporting anti-racism, diversity 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 have 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 four new County departments (Aging & Disabilities; Economic Opportunity; Justice, Care and Opportunities; and Youth Development) within an unprecedented time frame of less than 18 months; and saving the County more than $1 billion in seismic retrofit costs by acquiring a $200 million building to house County administrative staff.

Before becoming CEO, she held several high-ranking positions within the County including Interim Director of the Office of Child Protection, Chief Deputy Director of the Department of Children and Family Services and Chief Attorney/Chief Deputy of the Child Support Services Department.

A graduate of Cal State Long Beach, she earned a master’s degree in public administration from Cal State Northridge and a law degree from UC Hastings. Passionate about history—especially family history—she spends her free time researching genealogy or enjoying a performance of Hamilton, which she has seen more times than she cares to admit.