Former Administrator of the U.S. General Services Administration .
The first woman and the second Person of Color, to serve as chief executive of the U.S. General Services Administration and of Louisiana Creole Heritage
served as the Administrator of the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) from May 31, 2006 to April 30, 2008. She is the first woman and the second African-American, to serve as chief executive of the U.S. General Services Administration.
a New Orleans 9th Ward Creole
Doan was born the daughter of Lucien Victor Alexis, Jr., head of a New Orleans business school for black students. Her grandfather was Lucien Alexis, Sr., a prominent New Orleans businessman.[1] Doan attended Ursuline Academy, a Catholic school for girls in New Orleans.[1]
She graduated from Ursuline in 1975. Doan graduated with honors in English from Vassar College in New York.[2] Doan received a master’s degree in Renaissance Literature in 1983 from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.
Lurita Doan served as the Administrator of the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) from May 31, 2006 to April 30, 2008. She is the first woman and the second African-American, to serve as chief executive of the U.S. General Services Administration.
Lurita’s tenure at the nation’s premier procurement agency was marked by a return to the fundamentals of business best practices and fiscal discipline that date to GSA’s creation in 1949, as well as a wave of award-winning, innovative ideas.
Lurita was selected by San Diego’s Casa Familiar to receive the 2008 ABRAZO award for service to the community and her advocacy and innovation for land ports of entry in California. Doan was also awarded the prestigious “Friend of the Americas” tri national award in April of 2008, selected by representatives from Canada, the U. S. and Mexico. Previous recipients include Secretary Tom Ridge and then Governor George Bush. Doan was identified in February 2008 as one of the 25 Most Influential Black Women in Business.
In addition, prior to her tenure in public service, Lurita founded a surveillance Technology company in 1990. She was selected as one of SBA’s Women Business Owner Success Stories for its 50th Anniversary Celebration. Among Lurita’s business awards are the 2004 National Women’s Business Council Award for entrepreneurship, the 2003 National Director’s Award for Entrepreneurial Innovation from the Department of Commerce, the 2003 Committee of 200 Luminary Award for Innovation in Technology, and the 2003 Visionary Award from the National Foundation for Teaching Entrepreneurship.
Doan led her company over fifteen years from a one-woman operation to its standing as a highly innovative IT organization with a vital and family oriented corporate culture. Lurita sold the company in 2005.
Lurita is a native of New Orleans whose home in the 9th Ward was destroyed in during Hurricane Katrina. She is descended from three generations of African-American entrepreneurs. Lurita holds a Bachelor’s Degree from Vassar College and a Masters’ Degree in Renaissance Literature from University of Tennessee-Knoxville. She and her husband have two daughters and live in Northern Virginia.
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