AIDS Service Agency Names 1st Woman CEO

AIDS Project Los Angeles, the nation’s second-largest AIDS service organization, on Tuesday named its first female chief operating officer.

Callie Foster Struggs, formerly an assistant city manager in Pasadena, will assume her post at the $14-million agency Jan. 21, APLA representatives said. She will report to Leonard H. Bloom, the APLA’s newly appointed executive director. The Dallas native served four years as director of the Health and Human Services Department in Newark, N.J., and three years in the same position in Dallas. In 1989, Struggs’ testimony before a subcommittee of the Congressional Committee on Government Operations was used in the development of the Ryan White AIDS Care Bill.