I graduated from Georgetown Law in 1975. The path that led me there was guided by many people most of whom I did not know or did not know very well.

I graduated from Central High School in Kansas City, Missouri in 1959. I initially attended Rockhurst College, then an all male Jesuit boarding school. I remember being one of the few black students there, and do not recall any black boarding students. The few black students there probably took public transportation as I did.

My high school guidance, Ms. Hortense Schaller was the force behind me getting a Missouri State Vocational Rehabilitation Grant to attend the then all male Rockhurst College, now University. I had long-standing hearing issues from elementary school through high school. I did not graduate from Rockhurst but always identified with the classes of 1962-1963.

I completed college at Georgetown College in 1972 after seven years of active military service. Father Royden Davis was the dean of the College when I was there. He encouraged and assisted me in first finding University part time employment and later a full time University position as an assistant to the Executive Vice President for development of the University's affirmative action plan. After a year of evening law school, I switched to full time day student with GI Bill assistance and graduated in three years in the class of 1975.

After law school, I worked as a trial attorney and special assistant to the Assistant Attorney General of the United States Department of Justice for about ten years. The next ten years I was in private practice doing civil litigation. The last ten years of law practice was as a staff attorney at the Department of Veterans Affairs. I have lived in the District of Columbia since coming to attend Georgetown University about 50 years ago.

I have two adult children, no grandchildren, one former wife. My wife and I live in the Southwest area of the District of Columbia.

After five years at the Securities & Exchange Commission I joined the law firm of Rogers & Wells and then Seward & Kissel, where I became a partner specializing in financial services law. The last 10 years of my career were spent as the regional Deputy General Counsel of UBS Investment Bank. Upon retiring from the practice of law, I volunteered as a docent for seven years at the Bronx Zoo until moving to amount Pleasant SC, where I established a professional portrait photography business. I also became a volunteer for the Avian Conservation Center, rescuing wild birds of prey and shore birds.

On a personal note, I have been happily married for 38 years to Gene D’Agostino and sadly just lost my 30 year-old pet conure in April.