2007 MARTIN LUTHER KING BREAKFAST.
SPEAKER'S PROFILE.
Ernest G. Green,
Managing Director, (Public Finance)
Lehman Brothers' Washington, D.C. Office.
Ernest G. Green is the Managing Director of Public Finance for Lehman Brothers' Washington, D.C. office. Since joining Lehman Brothers in 1987, Mr. Green served as senior investment banker on transactions for such key clients as the 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.
Ernest G. Green's Background.
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 disadvantaged 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.
Place of Birth And Education.
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.
Community Involvement.
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 University 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.
Awards/Special Recognitions.
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 of seventeen, he was the youngest recipient of the NAACP's Spingard Medal. In 1957, the Boy Scouts of American honored Mr. Green and two other African American 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 to a civilian, the "Congressional Gold Medal", for his outstanding bravery during the integration of Little Rock Central 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 and again in the October 2002 issue as one of the top 50 African Americans on Wall Street.
Family Life.
Mr. Green and his wife Phyllis live in Washington, D. C.. He is the proud father of Adam, Jessica and McKenzie Ann.
