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Ms. Davenport
is a community leader, Civil Rights activist and humanitarian. She
is a graduate of W.A. Fountain High School, Forest Park, GA and
Spelman College, Atlanta, Georgia. She is a life member of the
National Alumnae Association of Spelman College, recipient of the
Atlanta Chapter’s 2001 Outstanding Alumnae Award, and the 2002
Spelman College Board of Trustees Community Service Award.
In September 1997, she
established the Henry and Clara Dixon Education Fund in honor of her
maternal grandparents to help students purchase books while
attending college. Also, she founded COLLEGE BOUND, an
initiative to motivate and encourage high school students to attend
college.
Ms. Davenport was a delegate to the
1988 Democratic National Convention in Atlanta, GA pledged to the
Rev. Jesse L. Jackson, Sr. and a delegate to the 2004 Democratic
National Convention in Boston, MA pledged to Senator John Kerry.
She has served on the Executive Committee of the Clayton County
Democratic Party. She is presently a candidate for the Georgia
State Senate, District 44 in the 2006 Democratic Primary.
Her other
achievements include:
 | Founder and
President of the Concerned Black Citizens Coalition of Clayton
County which spearheads the county’s annual ecumenical observance
of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Holiday. The organization led the
charge to have the Clayton County School Board name a school in
Dr. King’s honor. |
| Received the
1997 Outstanding Community Leader of the Year by the National
Council of Negro Women, Clayton County Section. |
| Received the
Community Leader of the Century Award by the Women in the NAACP,
September 1999. |
| Received the
1989 and 1996 NAACP, Clayton County Branch Image Award for
Distinguished Service |
| 2003
Pinnacle Leadership Award Recipient from the Delta Sigma Theta
Sorority, East Point/College Park Chapter. |
| Past
President of the American Business Women’s Association,
Greenbriar Chapter, 1992 Woman of the Year, Member Choice Award,
Hall of Fame Award and Inner Circle Member. |
| Chairperson
of the United Negro College Fund for the past twenty years. She
has received the UNCF Distinguished Leadership Award, Star
Volunteer Award and the 2000 Mayor’s Masked Award,
Atlanta, GA. |
| Recruited
approximately 100 youth for the Hook-A-Kid on Golf Tee Level
Clinics at River’s Edge Golf Club in Fayetteville and Browns Mill
Golf Club in Atlanta. |
| Hosted the
Gail P. Davenport Golf Classic to raise funds for local charities
for the past eleven years. |
She is a member of Andrews
Chapel United Methodist Church, Jonesboro, Georgia, where she serves
as a communion stewardess, member of the Building Committee and the
Nominating Committee - Griffin District.
She is the daughter of Mrs.
Helen Dixon Davenport and the late Nathaniel Davenport and the
sister of Carolyn Davenport.
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GAIL DAVENPORT, CANDIDATE FOR GEORGIA STATE
SENATE, DISTRICT 44, WILL BE THE GUEST SPEAKER AT DIXON GROVE BAPTIST CHURCH,
SUNDAY, JULY 16, 2006 – 8:00 A.M. IN OBSERVANCE OF THE CHURCH’S 50TH
WOMEN’S DAY CELEBRATION.
Dixon Grove Baptist Church is located at 7690 Fielder Road, Jonesboro, Georgia
where Reverend James E. Harris is pastor. The church telephone number is
770- 471-1021.
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