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Ernest G. Green is the Managing Director of Public
Finance for Lehman Brothers' Washington, DC office. Since
joining Lehman Brothers in 1987, Mr. Green served as senior
investment banker on transaction for such key clients as City of
New York, State of New York, City of Chicago, Port of Oakland,
City of Atlanta, State of Connecticut, Detroit Wayne County
Airport, Denver Airport, and the Washington Metropolitan Airport
Authority.
President Clinton appointed Mr. Green to serve as Chairman of
the African Development Foundation. Secretary of Education,
Richard W. Riley, appointed Mr. Green to serve as Chairman of
the Historically Black Colleges and Universities Capital
Financing Advisory Board.
Prior to joining Lehman Brothers, Mr. Green was president of
Ernest Green & Associates, a minority consulting firm that
provided technical assistance in marketing, financial management
and economic forecasting. Mr. Green served as Assistant
Secretary of labor for employment and training during the Carter
Administration. During his tenure
with the Labor Department, he formulated U.S. Presidential
policy and directed implementation of a vast range of
activities. These activities included federally funded
comprehensive training, public service employment, employment
security programs, apprenticeship programs research and |
development, alien worker
certification, work incentive programs for the disadvantage and
technical assistance for labor market information for the
nation's employment and training efforts. Prior to his
appointment as Assistant Secretary, Mr. Green served as
Executive Director of the Recruitment and Training Program, Inc.
(RTP, Inc.), an organization that recruits minorities for
apprenticeship programs in the building trades.
Mr. Green was born in Little Rock , Arkansas, September 22,
1941. He earned his high school diploma from Central High School
in Little Rock. He and eight other black students were the first
to integrate Central high following the 1954 U.S. Supreme Court
decision in Brown v. Board of Education that declared
segregation illegal. They later would become known as the
"Little Rock Nine". He received a B.S. in Social Science and a
Masters in Sociology from Michigan State University. He also
received Honorary Doctorates from Michigan State University,
Tougaloo College and Central State University.
Mr. Green presently serves on the Board of Directors of Michigan
State University College of social Sciences Board of Visitors,
Fisk University, Southeastern University, the Black Student
Fund, Quality Education for Minorities (QEM) Network, Clark
Atlanta Board of Trustees, the Albert Shanker Institute, First
Commercial Bank Advisory board and the Village Foundation. He is
a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the Executive
Leadership Council, the Legislative Action Committee of the
Public Securities Association (PSA) and is Chairman of the
National Association of Securities Professionals (NASP) and
Africare. Mr. Green just recently joined the board of directors
of Winrock International. He also has served on the Board of
Directors of the march of Dimes Foundation and the Winthrop
Rockefeller Foundation.
Hundreds of organizations have honored Mr. Green during his
career and he is the recipient of numerous awards. These awards
include the Urban League's Frederick Douglas Freedom Medal, the
John D. Rockefeller Public Service Award. At the age seventeen,
he was the youngest recipient of the NAACP's Spinard Medal. In
1957, the Boy Scouts of the America honored Mr. Green and two
other African Americans for their achievement with their highest
rank, that of Eagle Scout. In November of 1995, the Boy Scouts
of America awarded Mr. Green the Distinguished Eagle Scout
Award. On November 9, 1999, Mr. Green along with the other eight
students, was presented by President Clinton with the highest
honor this nation gives a civilian, the "Congressional Gold
Medal", for his outstanding bravery during the integration of
Little Rock High School in 1957.
Several books, movies, and documentaries have been produced
chronicling Mr. Green and his eight classmates' historic year at
Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas--the most recent
being the "Ernest Green Story" , produced and distributed by the
Walt Disney Corporation. The October 1996 issue of Black
Enterprise Magazine featured Mr. Green as one of the top
twenty-five African Americans on Wall Street.
Mr. Green and his wife Phyllis live in Washington D.C.. He is
the proud father of Adam,Jessica and Mckenzie Ann. |
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