Elected: March 2007
Term expires: March 2015

Phone: (310)952-1700 Ext. 1000
Email: lholmes@carson.ca.us

Councilwoman Lula Davis-Holmes was first elected into the Carson City Council on March 6, 2007. She was re-elected to a second term on March 8, 2011. From March 2009 to March 2010, she served as Carson’s Mayor Pro Tem.

Prior to her election, Lula served as the Carson’s Park and Recreation Superintendent for eight years, and worked for the city for a total of 27 years. During her tenure, the department experienced tremendous growth and maintained an unprecedented success in its programs.

Lula has been a Carson resident for 37 years, has worked for the City for nearly three decades and is an alumna for Carson’s California State University Dominguez Hills where she holds a Bachelor’s degree in Sociology and a Masters in Public Administration. She is also a passionate volunteer, dedicating time to the American Cancer Society where, as a 19-year breast cancer survivor, she helps educate women on the importance of early detection.

Community and children’s programs have always been among Lula’s top priorities. Her vision, exemplary commitment and successful programs earned the department its first-ever California Parks and Recreation Society Award of Excellence for community programs in 2002 and received an honorable mention for its after-school reading programs in 2004.

Through Lula’s leadership and recommendations, Carson Parks have undergone major improvements, acquired new playground and fitness equipments, snack bars, modernized restrooms, added a new aquatics center, a state-of-the-art gymnasium and received funding to support a Park Enforcement Team (PET) to boost safety in the city’s parks.

Lula also supervised and managed the execution of various City events, among them Unity Day, Juneteenth Celebration, Cinco de Mayo, Jazz Festival, Cesar Chavez Day, the City’s anniversary celebrations and many more. The success of these activities has earned her the reputation of being “THE” person capable of bringing all types of people working for a common goal.

Lula is an appointee of Los Angeles Unified School District Board of Education Director Dr. Richard Vladovic to his Human Relations Council. Additionally, she is also a member of the Carson Sheriff’s Station foundation, a non-profit organization whose goal is to improve the working environment personnel at the Carson Station. City-affiliated organizations that she is currently involved with include League of California Cities (L.A. Co. Division), South Bay Cities Council of Governments (JPA), South Bay Workforce Investment Board, Southern California Cities Joint Powers Consortium.

Since being elected, she has worked to improve the quality of life for Carson residents by supporting and or running lead on various projects such as the Measure C Utility Users’ Tax which brought additional revenue to the city. She also worked with our State Legislature to initiate legislation to prevent the clustering of sex offenders; Boots for Safety for the Los Angeles County Animal Control Officers assigned to the Carson Animal Shelter; supported Project Labor Agreement and Living Wages, and has been an advocate for local hiring and employment of minority contractors. Lula requested funding to renovate Carson Park, the Congresswoman Juanita Millender-McDonald Community Center and various areas in city hall and a teen center, and funding to assist with the Samoan, Philippine and Haiti relief efforts.. She has held over 40 town hall meetings designed to educate and inform residents on issues that affect them, and was very instrumental in bringing the Carson Global Business Academy (an International Trade Education Program) to Carson High School, and is currently working with the Los Angeles Unified School District to provide funding to renovate the track at Carson High School.

Davis-Holmes’ community affiliation includes Delta Sigma Theta - Los Angeles South Bay Alumnae Chapter, the National Congress of Black Women, Board of Director for Club Carson and the Carson Global Business Academy, Carson Coordinating Council, Top Ladies of Distinction, Inc., Carson Women’s Club, NAACP Carson-Torrance Chapter, Black Chamber of Commerce, Carson Kiwanis, National Council of Negro Women, Martin Luther King, Jr. Democratic Club, African-American Empowerment Coalition, and California Parks and Recreation Society. She is also a member of the New Philadelphia AME Church and a regular participant in the American Cancer Society’s Relay for Life, the American Heart Walk, Sickle Cell Disease Awareness, March of Dimes, United Negro College Fund, Assault on Illiteracy, the 37th Congressional District AIDS Walk and the National Bone Marrow Donor Program.

Additionally, Lula is a recipient of the Carson Coordinating Council’s Six Magnificent Women Award, the Say Yes to Children Network, and Congresswoman Juanita Millender McDonald’s 37th Congressional District Community Pride Award.

Lula is married to retired Los Angeles Police Department Detective Harry Holmes and they have six children, DeShon, Kesha, Diana, Darrell, Pandora and Diedra, and 14 grandchildren.



 

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