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ST. LOUIS — A member of a new city jail oversight board here resigned her post the day after she was confirmed by the city’s Board of Aldermen.

Pamela Walker, who had been the city’s acting health director for a decade under then-Mayor Francis Slay, posted , addressed to Mayor Tishaura O. Jones, on Twitter on Friday.

Walker said she was quitting because aldermen didn’t also approve two other board nominees: Mike Milton, executive director of the Freedom Community Center, and the Rev. Darryl Gray, a civil rights activist. Six others were approved.

Walker, in the letter, said the aldermanic decision “sets the board up for a combative and contentious relationship with the social justice community, and that trust has been eroded.� She called Milton and Gray “critical voices� on the issue.

Walker’s accompanying tweet said the letter speaks for her and that she wouldn’t be available for interviews.

Aldermen on Thursday rejected Jones’ appointment of Milton, the executive director of the Freedom Community Center. Ten aldermen voted in favor, and 10 voted “present.�

Two who voted “present� have expressed concern that Milton had been involved in the campaign to close the city’s medium-security jail, often referred to as the workhouse.

The board didn’t vote on Gray. Alderman Joe Vaccaro, 23rd Ward, who chairs the aldermanic Public Safety Committee, said he was returning Gray’s nomination to the committee for further vetting. The committee last month had endorsed all nine proposed members.

Gray was one of Vaccaro’s three appointments to the oversight board; the mayor makes the other six.

At the end of last year, aldermen passed legislation that created an independent oversight board to field complaints about city jails. The board was created almost nine months after it was first proposed amid disturbances at the Justice Center downtown.

Originally posted at 2 p.m. Saturday, April 16.