Roosevelt F. Dorn
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Roosevelt F. Dorn Born 10/29/35 in Checotah, McIntosh County, Oklahoma. He is the current mayor of Inglewood, California. He is also member of the National Conference of Black Mayors.
Mayor Dorn was elected in April 1997, serving the remainder of the previous Mayor’s term. {The immediate prior Mayor, Edward Vincent was the first African-American Mayor in Inglewood) Dorn was re-elected for a full term on November 3, 1998 and to his second four-year term in November 2003. He is a declared candidate for a third four-year term in the election of November 2007.
Dorn served in the United States Air Force from 1954 to 1958. Joining the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department as a deputy, he was a Superior Court bailiff from 1961 to 1969. After obtaining a Juris Doctor degree in 1969 from the Whittier Law School and passing the California State Bar Examination in 1970, Dorn worked as an Assistant City Attorney for the City of Los Angeles until 1979. California Governor Jerry Brown appointed him to the Municipal Court in 1979 and to the Los Angeles County Superior Court in 1980.
He married Joyce Evelyn Glosson in 1965 and has three children; Bryan Keith, Renee Felicia, and Rochelle Francine.
