Gale Rossides Explained

Gale Rossides
Office:Acting Administrator of the Transportation Security Administration
President:Barack Obama
Term Start:January 20, 2009
Term End:June 24, 2010
Predecessor:Kip Hawley
Successor:John S. Pistole

Gale D. Rossides was the acting administrator of the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) from January 2009 until June 2010.

Rossides has a bachelor's degree from Wheaton College (Massachusetts) and an MPA from George Washington University. She was on a committee charged with reforming the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms in the wake of the attempts to arrest David Koresh that led to the Waco siege. In 2002 she was one of the original founders of the TSA.

She is the daughter of Greek American football player and politician Gene Rossides.[1]

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  1. News: Goldstein . Richard . 2020-05-18 . Gene Rossides, 92, Dies; Led Columbia to Historic Upset of Army . en-US . The New York Times . 2022-06-23 . 0362-4331.