Black History Moment

Sandra Douglass Morgan

First Black Female President of an NFL Team

Growing up in Las Vegas, Sandra

Douglass Morgan never dreamed about making history she just wanted to make herself, and her parents, proud.

Her father Gilbert, who’s Black, and her mother Kil Cha, who is a first-generation Korean American, would swap stories about experiencing casual racism at their jobs. Gilbert was in the military, and her mother worked in the gaming industry.

Douglass Morgan, now 44, made a promise to herself: No matter what she did, she would champion equity and respect. If she wasn’t happy or felt like she wasn’t being seen, she would be part of the change.

The attorney and business leader is now a major part of the change as the President of the Las Vegas Raiders the first Black woman to lead an NFL team.

Born on Whiteman Air Force Base in Missouri, Douglass Morgan is a graduate of the University of Nevada, and the William S. Boyd School of Law at the University of Nevada Las Vegas.