Carol Davis is the widow

Widow

A widow is a woman whose spouse has died, while a widower is a man whose spouse has died. The state of having lost one's spouse to death is termed widowhood or occasionally viduity. The adjective form is widowed...

 of former Raiders owner Al Davis

Al Davis

Allen "Al" Davis was an American football executive. He was the principal owner of the Oakland Raiders of the National Football League from 1970 to 2011...

. Al was the principal owner and managing general partner of the Oakland Raiders

Oakland Raiders

The Oakland Raiders are a professional American football team based in Oakland, California. They currently play in the Western Division of the American Football Conference in the National Football League...

 from 1972 until his death on October 8, 2011. Davis had hinted in 2006 that Carol might succeed him.

When asked in 2007 who would succeed him, Al Davis again confirmed his intention that Carol would take his place, claiming that then general manager Ron Wolf

Ron Wolf

Ron Wolf is the former American football general manager of the NFL's Green Bay Packers. He also played a significant role in personnel operations with the Oakland and Los Angeles Raiders from 1963–1975, and again from 1978–1990...

 was "very close to Carol."

Personal

Little is known of Davis' personal life. In late 1979, she suffered a serious heart attack which placed her in the hospital for three weeks, but later recovered completely.

Davis has one son, Mark.

After her husband's death, Raiders chief executive Amy Trask

Amy Trask

Amy Trask is the current CEO of the Oakland Raiders, hired in 1997. Trask is currently the only female CEO in the NFL.Trask grew up in the Brentwood district of Los Angeles and graduated from University of California, Berkeley in 1982 with a degree in political science and with a law degree from...

said that the team "will remain in the Davis family."