Born Birmingham, Alabama, moved to Detroit MI 1947; attended Durfee Jr High; graduate of Cass technical High School 1963; Michigan State University 1963-68,B.S. Accounting and Financial Admin. Employed as Commercial Banker - Nat'l Bank of Detroit till 1980; National Consultant Minority Business for US Dept of Commerce 1980-82; Founder and first Exec VP of Nat'l Assn of Minority Automobile Dealers 1982; City of Detroit Finnce -Income Tax Division 1986 - 2005 retired and living in Virginia with second wife of 20 years and having a ball!