Charles Davis has served the citizens of Compton and the surrounding area for more than 40 years as an elected official.  His first elected position at the age of 28 was with the City of Compton as its elected City Clerk and served from July 1973 to December 2003 when he retired (30 and a half years).   He then came out of retirement when a group of citizens asked him to run for a seat on the Compton Community College Board of Trustees, to which he was elected November 2009 and served four years until December 2013.  He decided to run for a seat on the Compton Unified School District Board of Trustees and in November 2013 and won one of the four at large seats that was on that ballot, which term would end in December 2017.  In 2015 Mr. Davis decided to run for the open/vacant seat on the Compton Unified School District Board of Trustee which was caused when a Board Member was elected to the Compton City Council earlier that year.  He won that seat which gave him a new four year term that will end in March 2020.  At the end of Mr. Davis’s current term, he will have served the citizen of Compton and the surrounding area for more than forty years as an elected official.  This will make him one of the three longest serving Afro-American elected officials in the State of California.

Mr. Davis believes that all elected offices are important but the one that affects a citizen as it relates to policy the most direct is a School Board Member, he uses the example “you fix a street that is for 15 or 20 years but when you help a third grader to read, write and learn math, that benefits him/her, their family, their neighbors and the United States as a whole because they can become productive in their community no matter how small or large it is.

Mr. Davis also believes that in order to provide quality education to our students it takes team work, starting with the direct services from teachers, principals and support staff working at each school site and parent involvement and all the supporting employees from the painters, tutors, supply warehouse workers, project managers, food service workers, accountants, human resource employees all the way up to the Superintendent of Compton Unified School District.

Our mission is to provide the best education to our students with the resources we have available and to remember students first.

After retiring as Compton City Clerk, he was the executive director of the Compton Chamber of Commerce.

Mr. Davis served our country during the Vietnam War in the United States Air Force.

Mr. Davis graduated from California State University at Los Angeles 1971 with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Business Administration.

Mr. Davis has owned two businesses in downtown City of Compton, (First Choice Travel Agency and C J’S Pub and Pizza).

Mr. Davis has served on many boards in the City of Compton over the years such as Salvation Army Board, Quarter Master for the local Veterans of Foreign Wars club, YMCA and the meals on wheels formation committee, to name of few.