2006 PAN ASIAN AWARDEE

GENE LEE
Deputy Chief of Staff, Office of the Mayor, City of Chicago

ABOUT GENE LEE / 2006 PAN ASIAN AMERICAN PING TOM MEMORIAL AWARDEE

Gene Lee is a veteran of over twenty years of public service to the citizens of Chicago, and currently Deputy Chief of Staff for community relations and outreach to community groups, City of Chicago, Office of the Mayor Richard M. Daley. Lee was named to his current City of Chicago post by Mayor Daley in July 2001. Prior to that post, he served as Deputy Commissioner of Workforce Compliance for the City of Chicago Department of Personnel, since 1998. A graduate of Lindblom High School and a veteran of the United States Army (where he served in Thailand from 1968 to 1970), Lee joined the City Department of Human Services in 1978 as a human service worker. He was Community Outreach Coordinator for the Mayor’s Office of Inquiry and Information from 1988 to 1996 and Director of Intergovernmental Affairs and Special Events for the Chicago Park District from 1996 to 1998.

Civic service has been a major component of Lee’s life. He is an athletic director, basketball coach, organizer of traditional lion/dragon dance groups, and sports tournament promoter for the Chicago Dragon’s Athletic Association in Chinatown. Lee is also a member of the Chinatown American Legion Post 1003 and Chair of Chicago Chinatown’s Special Events Committee that produces the Annual Chinese New Year Parade, the Chinatown Summer Fair and the Double Ten Parade. Born in Chicago, Lee and his family have been lifelong residents of Chicago Chinatown.

E-mail of the 23rd Annual Asian American Coalition of Chicago Celebration 2006: aaccfeb2006@hotmail.com, or aaccfeb2006@yahoo.com 
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