Erica Calhoun has been named deputy executive director of the City of Los Angeles Harbor Department’s Administrative Bureau, the Port of LA announced Aug. 22.
In this newly created role, Calhoun will be in charge of the port’s risk management, contracts and purchasing, the Commission Office and human resources for the department’s close to 900 employees.
She would lead the Harbor Department as acting executive director whenever Executive Director Gene Seroka is away, according to the announcement.
Before joining the port in 2012, she was the assistant officer in charge in the Los Angeles Police Department’s Budget Section and served in a civilian oversight capacity in the L.A. Police Commission’s Office of the Inspector General. She was also a grants manager for the city’s Housing Department.
She arrived at the Port of LA as a senior management analyst in the Grants Unit, then joined the port’s Executive Office in 2012. Three years later, she became chief of staff to the executive director, the first African American woman to be in that role at the Harbor Department.
Calhoun has been the interim deputy executive director since May.
“Erica is an incredibly talented professional and valuable member of our Harbor Department team,” Seroka said in a statement. “Her dedication, leadership and hard work over the past two decades with the City of Los Angeles have paved the way for this new role.”
