Sandra Douglass Morgan Is Hired As Raiders Team President

Under the direction of Al Davis, Mark’s father, the Raiders franchise broke a number of demographic barriers in football. Tom Flores, the first Latino head coach to win a Super Bowl, won two titles with the team in the 1980 and 1983 seasons. In 1989, the team hired Art Shell, the first Black head coach in the modern N.F.L., and in 1997 Davis named Amy Trask the team’s chief executive, the first woman in league history to hold the title. Raiders defensive end Carl Nassib became the first openly gay N.F.L. player on an active roster in 2021.

Trask, who had worked for the Raiders for almost 30 years when she resigned in 2013, noted that Morgan’s hiring carries meaning as “another first by an organization with so many of these firsts.” Trask also emphasized the significance of the role Morgan will take on as a result of the team’s recent upheaval.

“It’s an important decision for any number of reasons, including but not limited to stabilizing that position, stabilizing that organization,” Trask said. “The president of the organization is in a leadership role, and that matters. When you talk about the innumerable points of instability, it’s the job of a leader to head the organization in the right direction.”

While she did not come up through the N.F.L. ranks, Morgan pointed to her experience with large businesses and working in the sports, entertainment and gaming industries, including a stint with the Nevada State Athletic Commission. She was raised in the Las Vegas area where she served as city attorney and, more recently, as part of the state’s Covid-19 task force.

Article source: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/07/sports/football/sandra-douglass-morgan-raiders.html