Prior to serving as a State executive, Gibson served as Senior Vice President of Administration and Governance, Chief Governance Officer, and Counselor to the President of the National Urban League, where she oversaw the development of a new strategy to advance the mission of the civil rights organization.
[3] During the Clinton Administration, she served as legal counsel to Vice President Al Gore from 1994 to 1997.
She was appointed to that post in January 2007 by Governor Eliot Spitzer and confirmed unanimously by the New York State Senate several months later.
[5] During her tenure as Commissioner, Gibson revamped the State agency, reducing backlogs and making it more effective in fighting systematic forms of discrimination.
[7] Gibson is serving on the board of directors of the National Trust for Historic Preservation,[8] having been one of the founding Board members of the National Trust Community Investment Corporation, having been a board member of the National Law Center on Homelessness & Poverty,[9] and having served on the Washington, D.C. Convention Center Authority Board,[10][11] the District of Columbia Commission on Judicial Disabilities and Tenure,[12] and the Administrative Council of the United States.