D.C. Councilmembers

Ward Members

Yvette Alexander

Committees

Committee of the Whole

Committee on Public Services and Consumer Affairs

Committee on Aging and Community Affairs

Committee on Human Services

Committee on Environment, Public Works and Transportation

Committee on Small and Local Business Development

Biography

The Honorable Yvette M. Alexander has been a member of the Council of the District of Columbia since 2007. She chairs the Committee on Public Services and Consumer Affairs and is a member of the committees on Economic Development; Health; Human Services and Public Works, Transportation and Environment.

She is responsible for the oversight of regulatory agencies, which includes the Department of Consumer and Regulatory Affairs; Department of Insurance, Securities and Banking and Public Service Commission, which regulates public utilities.

Councilmember Alexander began her professional career in management with United Airlines. After several years in the insurance industry, she became an insurance regulator with the District of Columbia government. As a legislator she has introduced several measures primarily impacting her district with improvements in the areas of economic development, health, education, public safety, social services and environmental and regulatory issues.

Alexander received a Bachelor of Business Administration degree from Howard University and studied graduate work at Trinity College. She serves as a board member for The Washington Tennis and Education Foundation and the Take Charge Program, a juvenile diversion and gang prevention program.

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