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| Name | Alicia M. Reece |
| Address | 2081 Seymour Avenue
Cincinnati, Ohio 45237, United States |
| Email | None |
| Website | http://aliciareece.org/ |
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April 25, 1971
(53 years)
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| Info | Alicia Michelle Reece
Alicia Reece became the youngest woman in history to be elected (at large) to Cincinnati City Council at the age of 28, in November of 1999. She was re-elected to City Council (at-large) by placing first in 16 out of 26 wards and became one of the youngest African American female Vice Mayors in the country. Ms. Reece has been recognized at the state and national level as she became one of the youngest females to make the short list for Lieutenant Governor on the Ohio Democratic ticket in 2002 and was courted for a run for Secretary of State. As a delegate at the 2000 National Democratic Convention, Ms. Reece electrified the crowd, as was one of the featured speakers at the Ohio Delegation breakfast in Los Angeles, California. Ms. Reece was given the highest honor for a female elected official in the Ohio Democratic Party by receiving the 2002 Gertrude W. Donahey Award.
Ms. Reece is a graduate of Withrow High Public School (1989) where she served as senior class president, captain of the girls City Champions basketball team, and graduated in the top ten percent of her class from the International Studies Academy. Ms. Reece is also a graduate of Grambling State University in Louisiana where she not only earned a bachelor degree in Mass Communications but served as Miss Grambling State University; the student ambassador. She played on the 1990 Grambling State University Women's Division I Basketball Southwestern Athletic Conference Championship team and traveled the country with legendary coach Eddie Robinson promoting the university.
Ms. Reece is an active member of New Friendship Baptist Church of Cincinnati, Ohio under the direction of Rev. Dr. H.L. Harvey.
As a businesswoman, Ms. Reece serves as Vice President of her family's 32 year marketing and consulting business; Communiplex Promotions and Reece & Reece Enterprises located in the inner city. She was selected as one of the Cincinnati Business Courier newspaper's "Under 40" Business Leaders in 2000. Ms. Reece is the founder of the Communiplex National Student Leadership Convention, The Stop The Violence Conference, and co-founded the Communiplex African American Business, Consumer, & Get Out the Vote Week.
Ms. Reece has appeared nationally and internationally on CNN, FOX News, BET, National Rainbow/PUSH Network, and Nightline as well as being featured in Ebony Magazine, Jet Magazine, Applause Magazine, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, and The Detroit News.
As the Vice Mayor; she played a critical role in negotiating the nationally recognized Federal Court's Racial Profile Collaborative Settlement in Cincinnati; an agreement signed by the US Justice Department, an African American activist group, the FOP, ACLU, and US Attorney General John Ashcroft in Cincinnati. She chairs the Health, Social & Children Services, Small Business Development, and Employment & Training Committee and is a member of the Finance Committee. Vice Mayor Reece authored legislation establishing a 30-day Prompt Pay system guaranteeing contractors, sub contractors, vendors, and small businesses doing business with the city will be paid on time. She has played a key role in establishing the city's first small business division and co-authored fair tax legislation ending double taxation of small businesses in Cincinnati; designed to retain small business in the city. As a fighter for healthcare, Ms. Reece lobbied for increased funding of $2.2 million, which resulted in keeping neighborhood health clinics open for uninsured and underinsured families. At the request of hundreds of constituents, Vice Mayor Reece reformed city government by co-sponsoring a bi-partisan Charter Amendment on the 2001 ballot allowing Cincinnati to change a 74 year old system and do a national search for the positions of police and fire chiefs, as well as economic development officers like other major cities. The voters passed the historic amendment on Nov.7, 2001.[Link]
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