Cheryl Artise Gray Evans (born 1968, New Orleans, Louisiana) is an American lawyer and politician.
[1] After finishing Eleanor McMain Magnet Secondary Senior High School in New Orleans, Gray proceeded to Stanford University, where she was a member of the track team and Delta Sigma Theta,[2][circular reference] receiving her baccalaureate degree in 1990.
[citation needed] Gray Evans is a confidant with the reform faction of the Orleans Parish Democratic Party—the element frequently identified with the Black Organization for Leadership Development (BOLD) political organization which inexorably competes against William J. Jefferson and his Progressive Democrats.
[5] Gray Evans' official state senate résumé lists a host of achievements, activities, awards, and memberships.
[8] Toward the end of 2009 Cheryl Gray Evans resigned from the legislature to join her husband, who had begun serving on active duty in Connecticut as a public affairs officer in the Navy.