The hiring of Jacqueline Grace last month as Tropicana’s senior vice president and general manager of the Atlantic City casino was — in a way — historic because it wasn’t historic in that city anymore.
Instead, Grace became the fourth woman to run one of the city’s nine casinos, a ratio far exceeding the national average in terms of gender balance.
Grace’s peers are Borgata President Melonie Johnson, Ocean Casino CEO Terry Glebocki, and Bally’s Senior Vice President and General Manager Karie Hall.
The development piqued the interest of Steve Norton, a casino industry consultant who was the first executive ever hired in Atlantic City in 1971, five years before an “Atlantic City casinos-only referendum” passed and seven years before his employer, Resorts, opened the first casino in the city.