Cheryl A. Gray Evans

Cheryl Artise Gray Evans (born 1968, New Orleans, Louisiana) represented District 5 in the Louisiana Senate prior to her resignation in 2009. She formerly served in the Louisiana House of Representatives (District 98).
Background
After finishing Eleanor McMain Magnet Secondary Senior High School in New Orleans, Cheryl A. Gray proceeded to Stanford University, where she was a member of the track team and Delta Sigma Theta, receiving her baccalaureate degree in 1990. She then returned to New Orleans and received her juris doctor from Tulane University's law school in 1993. She engages in the practice of law with New Orleans' Gray & Gray Law Firm, which was started by her parents, her mother Ernestine S. Gray rising to the position of judge in the Orleans Parish Juvenile Court.
Political career
Cheryl A. Gray Evans is a confidante with the reform faction of the Orleans Parish Democratic Party—the element frequently identified with the Black...