The Las Vegas Raiders employed Sandra Douglass Morgan, the previous chairwoman of the Nevada Gaming Management Board, because the crew’s new president. She is the primary Black lady to carry the place for an N.F.L. franchise.
Morgan fills a job that was vacated twice prior to now 12 months amid entrance workplace upheaval and allegations of monetary mismanagement and office dysfunction throughout the Raiders group. She joins the Raiders 9 months after the departure of Coach Jon Gruden, who resigned in October 2021 after The New York Occasions detailed emails wherein he made misogynistic and homophobic feedback earlier than beginning his second stint with the crew.
A lawyer who has additionally sat on the boards for Caesars Leisure and Allegiant Journey, the guardian firm of the airline that has the naming rights to the Raiders’ stadium, Morgan was named the vice chair of Las Vegas’ host committee for Tremendous Bowl LVIII final 12 months.
For the reason that Raiders moved to Las Vegas from Oakland, Calif., in 2020, six of the crew’s eight prime executives stop or had been fired with little clarification. Marc Badain resigned as crew president in July 2021, and his interim substitute, Dan Ventrelle, was fired in Could. Ventrelle later accused the Raiders’ proprietor Mark Davis, whose household has run the crew for greater than 50 years, of making a hostile work setting.
