Elected President of the Georgia AFL-CIO October 1999

Secretary - Treasurer, Georgia State AFL-CIO 1990-1999

Member Steelworkers/Flint Glass Workers Union since 1963 ( Mold maker )

Member, State Committee - Georgia Democratic Party

Member DNC

Member, Governor's Employment and Training Council

Member State of Georgia Workforce Development Board

Member, Advisory Council, Labor Studies Program - Ga. State University

Labor Leader of the Year, Organized Labor and Workmen's Circle 1995

Elected Secretary Treasurer Georgia  AFL-CIO October 1999

Executive Vice President - Georgia .AFL-CIO 1996-1999

Business Manager/Financial Sect- Treasurer Atlanta & North Georgia Building & Construction Trades Council 1983-1999

President Plumbers & Pipe fitters Local 72   1984 - 1990, 1992 - Present

Secretary Treasurer - Georgia. State Building Trades Council, 1994-2002

Member Advisory Committee - Ga. State University Labor Studies Program

Member Advisory Committee - Emory University Occupational Medicine Program

Executive Committee Metropolitan Atlanta Workforce Development Board

Executive Committee Cobb County  Workforce Development Board

Labor Leader of the Year, Organized Labor and Workmen's Circle 1994

Elected Executive Vice President Georgia  AFL-CIO October 2007

Previously served as 3rd District Vice President  1999-2003 and 205-2007

President, Communications Workers of America  Local 3204

Vice President Atlanta Labor Council

Labor Leader of the Year 2007

Elected Vice President Georgia State AFL-CIO October 2001

President International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 84 

Georgia Labor Leader of the Year 1990

Elected 3rd District Vice President by the Executive Board February 2007

Reelected at the Georgia AFL-CIO Convention October 2007

Business Manager of IBEW Local Union 613

1978 - Graduate of Rockdale County High School.

1978 – 1981 Attended Jacksonville State University in Alabama on a wrestling scholarship.

1982 - Enrolled in the IBEW Local Union 613 Apprenticeship School in 1982

1987- Journeyman Wireman.

25 year member of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers a forth generation Wireman and the great grandson of a Local 613 charter member.

Served on the Executive Board for Local 613 on two separate occasions

Served on several contract negotiating committees, Safety Committees, By-Laws Committees

Elected Vice President Georgia State AFL-CIO October 2007

United Steel Workers Staff

Member USW 703

Member Board of Directord Georgia Labor Management Committee

Elected Vice President, Georgia AFL-CIO  October 2007

President Georgia State CWA State Council

Member CWA Local 3212

Elected Fifth District Vice President Georgia State AFL-CIO 2005

President AFGE Warner Robbins, Georgia

Elected Sixth District Vice President by the Georgia AFL-CIO Executive Board May 2007

Field Representative Laborers International Union of North America  Local 515

Executive Board Member of the Laborers District Council of Georgia and South Carolina

President of the Augusta and State  of Georgia Chapters of the A. Phillip Randolph Institute

Vice President and Assistant Treasurer of the Augusta Federation of Trades

Executive Member and Parliamentarian of the Augusta Branch NAACP

Member of East Central Georgia Workforce Development Board

Member Blue Ribbon Committee of Richmond County

Deacon of Macedonia Baptist Church

Served as President of Lucy C. Laney and T. W. Josey High School Booster Clubs

Georgia Labor Leader of the Year 2004

Vice President, Georgia State AFL-CIO since 2001

National Representative International Association of Machinist

Member, Georgia State Council of Machinists

Member and Past President of  Machinists Local Lodge #2699  

Member, International Association of Machinist National Planning Committee

Labor Leader of the Year 2007

Elected Vice President, Georgia AFL-CIO 1993

Member, IBEW Local 2064

President, South Georgia Central Labor Council

1st Vice Chair Lowndes County Democratic Party

Member of the South Georgia Workforce Development Board

Member State Democratic Committee

Elected Vice President, Georgia State AFL-CIO  October 2003

President, Amalgamated Transit Union  Local 1324..1998-

Vice President Trades and Labor Assembly of Savannah, Georgia 1999-

Vice President Amalgamated Transit Union Joint Conference

Graduated US Army Administrative Institute

Attended Savannah State University and the National Labor College

AFL-CIO Organizing Institute 2003

Member of American Institute of Parliamentarians 2000-

Retired US Army 1985  First Sergeant Vietnam Veteran

Graduate Columbia College   Columbia, Missouri

Elected Vice President at Large October 2007

Appointed Vice President at Large 2006  Serving as Vice President since 1996

President UFCW Local 1996

Georgia Labor Leader of the Year2002

Chair Georgia AFL-CIO Labor Awards Committee 2003 to present

Elected Vice President, Georgia AFL-CIO  October 2007

Georgia Federation of Teachers 8009

Elected Vice President, Georgia AFL-CIO  April 2010

President of AFSCME Local 3

Elected Vice President, Georgia AFL-CIO  October 2007

Member United Auto Workers Local 882

President Georgia Chapter APRI

Elected Vice President, Georgia AFL-CIO  October 2005

Member AFGE

President Greater Georgia CLUW

Program Support Specialist

Member OPEIU Local 2001

Member APRI

Memeber CBTU

Member UAW Local 10 & OPEIU Local 2001