By Kathy Wray Coleman, Publisher, Editor-n-Chief, Cleveland Urban News. Com and The Cleveland Urban News.Com Blog, Ohio's Most Read Online Black Newspaper

CLEVELAND,Ohio- Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson (pictured) is poised to name a replacement for press secretary Andrea V. Taylor (pictured), who is resigning from the post she has held since 2007, effective Jan 1,  to return to her hometown of Detroit to work in the private sector, a spokesperson for the mayor told reporters.

The mayor is at the end of a second four-year-term and has said that he will seek reelection next year. He has not publicly named a replacement for Taylor, who is Black, though he has no Blacks in the appointed positions of law director, safety director, chief of police, chief prosecutor, EMS commissioner, chief of staff and CEO of the majority Black and impoverished Cleveland Municipal School District.

Jackson,66, is the third Black mayor of the largely Black major metropolitan city of Cleveland, which has roughly 400,000 people, a 2010 U.S. Census Report reveals.

Prior to joining the Jackson administration Taylor served as press secretary to Congresswoman Juanita Millender-McDonald, who represented California's 37th congressional district, which includes South Central Los Angeles.

Millender-McDonald died of colon cancer in 2007, shortly after taking a sick leave from office.

Taylor earned a  bachelor’s degree from Eastern Michigan University with a concentration in broadcast journalism, language arts and Spanish.

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