MURIEL BOWSER
MAYOR
November 14, 2022
The Honorable Phil Mendelson
Chairman
Councilof the District of Columbia
John A. Wilson Building
1350 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Suite 504
Washington, DC 20004
Dear Chairman Mendelson:
In accordance with section 2ofthe Confirmation Act of 1978, effective March 3, 1979 (D.C. Law
2-142; D.C. Official Code 1-523.01), and pursuant to section 2 of An Act To provide voluntary
apprenticeship in the District of Columbia, approved May 21, 1946 (60 Stat. 204; D.C. Official
Code 32-1402) (2016 Supp.), I am pleased to nominate the following person:
Mr. Courtland Cox
Verbena Street, NW
Washington, DC 20012
(Ward 4)
for reappointment as a public representative member, who is not a member of either employee or
employer organizations, of the Apprenticeship Council, for a term to end November 19, 2025.
I would appreciate the Council's earliest consideration of this nomination for confirmation.
Please do not hesitate to contact me, or Steven Walker, Director, Mayor's Office ofTalent
and Appointments, should the Council require additional information.
Sincerely,
luge VE. Bowser
Maypr
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Chairman Phil Mendelson
at the request of the Mayor
A PROPOSED RESOLUTION
IN THE COUNCIL OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.
To confirm the reappointment of Mr. Courtland Cox as a member of the Apprenticeship Council.
RESOLVED, BY THE COUNCIL OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, That this
resolution may be cited as the Apprenticeship Council Courtland Cox Confirmation Resolution
of 2022.
Sec. 2. The Council of the District of Columbia confirms the reappointment of:
Mr. Courtland Cox
Verbana Street, NW
Washington, DC 20012
(Ward 4)
as a public representative member, who is not a member of either employee or employer
29 organizations, of the Apprenticeship Council, pursuant to section 2 of An Act To provide for
30 voluntary apprenticeship in the District of Columbia, approved May 21, 1946 (60 Stat. 204; D.C.
31 Official Code 32-1402), for a term to end November 19, 2025.
32 Sec. 3. The Council of the District of Columbia shall transmit a copy of this resolution,
33 upon its adoption, to the nominee and to the Office of the Mayor.
34 Sec. 4. This resolution shall take effect immediately.
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Biography of
COURTLAND V. COX
CONSULTANT
Courtland Cox is President of CCAP Consulting, LLC, which was incorporated in the District of Columbia in July 2011.
Presently, Mr. Cox is part of the DCPEP team that works with the Department of General Services (DGS) of the
District ofColumbia Government. As part of the DCPEP team, Mr. Cox is responsible for making sure that there is
compliance with federal and District law pertaining to CBE and workforce participation on all DGS projects. In
2009, Courtland Cox served as a Consultant to the Office of Public Education Facilities Modernization (OPEFM) and
was responsible for the participation of businesses and workforce participation in over $1 billion in the
construction, rehabilitation and maintenance of schools in the Districtof Columbia. Mr. Cox has also served as a
consultant with the Hensel Phelps Construction Company to ensure that District residents and District businesses
participate in the approximately $400 million Marriott Marquis Convention Center Hotel construction project.
From 2004 until 2008, Courtland Cox served as the Directorof Small, Local, Businesses Development for the DC
Sports & Entertainment Commission (DCSEC) to ensure small business and District workforce participation in the
construction of the approximately $800 million Nationals Baseball Stadium. During the construction of the
ballpark project, he was responsible for the compliance of a Project Labor Agreement (PLA), and all Federal and
District laws. During this period, he also was also a consultant to the Anacostia Waterfront Commission an agency
charged with the development of the District's Southwest Waterfront. From August 2001 until September 2003 he
worked as a consultant to the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies and from 2003 until February 2004 he
served as asenior advisor to the ASABA Group.
FEDERAL GOVERNMENT SERVICE
(On March 29, 1998, Courtland Cox was appointed by President William Clinton to serve as the Director of the
Minority Business Development Agency (MBDA)atthe U.S. Department of Commerce. As Director of MBDA, he
managed a budget of approximately $30 million, supervised over 125 staff, and had 30 technical assistance
contractors located across the U.S serving small, minority and disadvantaged businesses as his responsibility. Mr.
Cox assisted the Secretary of Commerce in implementing new business economic development strategies to better
serve the minority business community. He specifically targeted the areas of access to markets and procurement,
access to capital, and management and technical assistance.
Prior to his MBDA appointment, Mr. Cox held several positions at the Department of Commerce. In 1993, he
served under the late Ronald Brown - then Secretary of Commerce ~ as Special Assistant to the Deputy Assistant
Secretary for Africa, the Near East and South Asia at Commerces International Trade Administration. In 1994, he
was appointed as the .ctor of the Office Civil Rights where he spearheaded improvements in Commerce's Equal
Employment Opportunity (EEO) efforts, affirmative action processes, and implemented initiatives that improved all
aspects of human resources management. His special assignments at Commerce included coordinating the
Department's efforts for the International Trade Center in the Ronald Reagan Building and chair the Department of
Commerce's Diversity Council.
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DISTRICT GOVERNMENT SERVICE
Prior to his appointment to the Department of Commerce, Mr. Cox served in the District of Columbia Government
for twelve years. He was the first Directorofthe District's Minority Business Opportunity Commission (MBOC) later
to become the Department of Small Local Business Development (DSLBD). While Director, Mr. Cox put in place
many of the legal and regulatory structures that continue today at the present (DSLBD). He was a member of the
Mayor's Cabinet.
In 1983, he was appointed the Director of the International Business Office, and as Director, Mr. Cox negotiated
with the Beijing, China government the construction of the Chinese Archway located at 7" and H Streets NW.
During the six-month construction of the Archway, Mr. Cox served as the District government liaison to the 16
Chinese artisans sent by the Beijing government to the District. Before establishing the Office of International
Business, Mr. Cox served as Special Assistant to the Mayor and Special Assistant to the Deputy Mayor for Economic
Development.
CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT
In 2010, Mr. Cox participated in the organizing of the SNCC LegacyProject and he served
as the first President of its Board of Directors.
In 1977, Mr.Cox served asamember of the TransAfrica Board of Directors. TransAfricas mission was to
end apartheid in Southern Africa.
* In 1973, Mr. Cox served as the Secretary General of the Sixth Pan-African Congress in Tanzania. The
Congress was an international meeting of African and Caribbean countries, African liberation movements,
and African peoples from the United States, Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean.
* In 1969, Mr. Cox was oneofthe organizers of the Center for Black Education. The Center served as a place
that advancedthestudy ofAfrican and African-Americanlife and culture.
In 1968, Mr. Cox and others from the civil rights movement founded and managed the Drum & Spear
bookstore and Drum &Spear Press. Drum &Spear Press published a number of booksincluding work by
C.LR. James and childrens books. Drum & Spear Press also had a childrens radio program entitled, So
Ya Watoto.
"In 1966, Mr.Coxservedas the SNC representative to the Bertrand Russell Tribunal on the VietnamWar.
Also participating on the Tribunal was John Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, and Issac Deutscher.
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In 1965, Mr. Cox was one of the organizers of the Lowndes County Freedom Organization and Lowndes
County Freedom Party. The organization of the Lowndes County Freedom Party allowed the Alabama
county, that was 80% Black and only had four registered African American voters to assume responsi
for the local government in Lowndes County in a four-year period.
In 1964, Mr. Cox was a SNC organizer for the Freedom Summer Project in Mississippi. He worked in Le
Flore County to register African American Mississippians to vote and to become part of the Mississippi
Freedom Democratic Party (MFP). He also participated in the efforts of the MFOP to become seated at
the Atlantic City Democratic Convention.
In 1963, Mr. Cox served as the SNCC representative on the Steering Committee for the historic 1963
MarchonWashington.
From 1960 to 1962, while a Howard University student, Mr. Cox became a member of the Student Non
Violent Coordinating Committee (SNC) and served on its Executive Committee. During those years, Mr.
Cox participated in many demonstrations to end barriers to public accommodations for all Americans. He
participated in ending segregation of Route 40, the Eastern Shore of Maryland, Baltimore City,
Washington, DC, and in other places south of the United States.
PUBLICATIONS
Aseries of educational pamphlets to assist Lowndes County residents to understand the responsibilities
for county offices (e.g, sheriff, tax assessor, tax collector, probate judge) so that they can run for office.
Mr. Cox presently resides in Washington, DC and he is married to Frankie Cox and has one daughter.
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Executive Officeof the Mayor - Office of Talent and Appointments
John A. Wilson Building | 1350 Pennsylvania Avenue, Suite 600 | Washington, DC 20004
Courtland Cox
Courtland Cox is President of CCAP Consulting, LLC.
Mr. Cox has over three decades of government leadership
experience. Mr. Cox is part of the DCPEP team that works
with the Department of General Sciences (DGS), where he
ensures compliance with federal and District law pertaining to
Certified Business Enterprises and workforce participation on
all DGS projects. Prior to his current role, Mr. Cox was a
consultant in the Office of Public Education Facilities
Modernization and with Hensel Phelps Construction
Company. In these roles, he increased business and workforce
participation with construction projects in Washington, DC.
A Ward4resident, Mr. Cox received a Bachelor of Arts in
Political Science from Howard Unit iversity.
 GOVERNMENT OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
Executive Office of Mayor Muriel Bowser
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WE ARE
Wasmcron
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Office of the General Counsel to the Mayor
Office of Policy & Legislative A fairs, Steve Walker
Betsy Cavendish
November 7, 2022
Legal sufficiency review of Resolutions nominating Violet Carter, Frank
Chiaramonte, Courtland Cox, William H. Dean, Stephen J. Lanning, Leroy
Watson, and Ioannis John Xanthos as members of the Apprenticeship Couneil
This is to Certify that tnis oftice has reviewed the above-referenced resolutions and
found them to be legally unobjectionable. If you have any questions in this regard, please do not
hesitate to call Vanessa Careiro, Deputy General Counsel, Executive Office of the Mayor, at
202-724-1303, or me at 202-724-7681.
LypberA..Gatenide
Elizabeth Cavendish
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