Over 15 years in LA, Archbishop Gomez has championed Catholic schools
When Archbishop José H. Gomez officially began his tenure in Los Angeles in the spring of 2011, Dr. Kevin Baxter was head of the archdiocese’s elementary schools. Meanwhile, Paul Escala was the president and CEO of St. John Bosco High School in Bellflower.
In the years that followed, both men would go on to work with Archbishop Gomez as superintendent of LA’s Catholic school system — Baxter from 2015 to 2019, and Escala from 2019 to the present.
Looking back at the last 15 years, both men agree that Archbishop Gomez’s leadership style and personal commitment to Catholic education — even under inconvenient circumstances — have paid off big for Catholic families.