Fifty years! Excited to reconnect and share experiences had and insights gained during those years.

After Georgetown Law, where I had served as head of the Black American Law Students Association, I was selected as an "Honors Intern" Litigator with the US Department of Housing and Urban Development and after a couple of years I joined the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) as an Enforcement Litigator which ultimately relocated me from K Street Washington, DC to their World Trade Center offices in New York. where now truth be told, I really wanted to be in proximity to my then girlfriend Rhetta who at the time was attending Columbia University Graduate Business School. She has since blessed me by becoming my wife of 47 years.

After a couple of years of commodities compliance litigation, I was recruited to join the New York Stock Exchange as a senior prosecutor when they were establishing a Futures Exchange and needed compliance attorneys to monitor this start up initiative. After a few years of practicing enforcement litigation, I decided to enhance my business skills and accepted a position in JP Morgan's management training program. Upon completion of the one year program I was offered the position of a Private Banker where I excelled and was promoted at JP Morgan to a vice president. As a model banking officer I was photographed along with my clients in the private bank's full page advertisements appearing in Wall Street Journal, NY Times and Fortune Magazine.
I was recruited to manage a private banking division of the highest net worth clients for Chase Manhattan Bank just before its merger with JP Morgan. The final chapter of my banking finance career was spent helping to launch US Trust's Private Banking offices in Fairfield County, Connecticut.

In my midlife I became entrepreneurial and decided to leave the banking industry to found a New York sports and entertainment marketing and management firm with world famous client athletes and entertainers with the invaluable support my friend, the late Arthur Ashe, Jr. Arthur invited me to serve on the founding board of Amistad Press, an independent book publishing co-venture with Time Warner, which published Ashe's three volume book, "A Hard Road to Glory: A History of the African American Athlete" 1619-1988, which was featured on the cover of the New York Times Book Review.

After Arthur's passing, the publishing company was sold to Harper Collins and is now their popular imprint known as Amistad Books. I also co-executive produced the world's first Hip Hop musical "Echo Park" at Harlem's Apollo Theater which featured the iconic Hip Hop pioneering artist, Kurtis Blow.

Currently, I am semi-retired doing licensing contracting work with a Los Angeles entertainment law firm in the music industry with clients including gospel greats BeBe and CeCe Winans, and the estate of the great, late US Jazz pianist, Thelonious Monk. I also enjoying doing commercial voiceover assignments.

My wife Rhetta and I have three adult children, one of whom is a civil rights attorney in the whose practice focuses on children with disabilities.

After I graduated from GULC in 1976, I had careers in law and marathon swimming. Both began during my first year of law school when I became a coffee drinker. Drinking coffee made me shaky. Swimming with the D.C. Dept. of Rec. Masters Team enabled me to reduce my coffee consumption. Years later, swimming became like a tail wagging the dog. I broke one U.S. Swimming National Record and that was for the swim around Manhattan Island - which Sports Illustrated says is 31.3 miles around. People from that part of the world know better than to do things like that but I'm from California. I, poor fool, didn't know any better so I went ahead and done it.