MIAMI – Miami-Dade’s mayor said Sherea Green was making history as the second Black woman to serve as director of the county’s Corrections and Rehabilitation Department, one of the largest in the country.
In front of a crowd of friends and family, Green stood on stage on Friday at PortMiami with Miami-Dade County Mayor Daniella Levine Cava during an investiture ceremony with a ruby red carpet.
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“We know you are a woman of great faith,” Levine Cava told Green, who published a book about leadership through Christian principles.
Green joined MDCR last year after two decades with the Broward Sheriff’s Office, where she started as a typist in 1993 and eventually served as assistant director, according to the county’s biography.
Levine Cava appointed Green, the then-deputy director, in November and commissioners voted unanimously to hold her responsible for over 4,000 inmates awaiting trial or serving sentences of 364 days or less.
“Your budget is nearly half a billion dollars — a good portion of the now $12 billion budget,” Levine Cava told Green during her speech.
Levine Cava’s administration credited Green with helping the department “achieve substantial compliance” and supporting “lasting reform,” according to a county statement.
The department, which has headquarters in Doral, runs detention facilities that offer medical and mental health treatments, and re-entry and youth boot camp programs.
“They are the ones who make sure that the folks who come in into our care leave better than they came in,” said Levine Cava, who was the first woman to be elected to serve as county mayor in 2020 and who is campaigning for re-election.
The county had initially announced Green was “the first woman” to lead the department, but Levine Cava corrected the record to “the second Black woman” during her public speech Friday.