Johnny C. Taylor, Jr.
Mr. Taylor is the President & CEO of the Thurgood Marshall College Fund (TMCF), the only national organization representing the country’s 47 Public Historically Black Colleges and Universities and the 300,000 students matriculating on their campuses, serves on the corporate board of Gallup, a leader in organizational consulting and public opinion research, volunteers for the YMCA of the USA, the country’s largest social service agency; the University of Miami’s President’s Council; and the Center for Military and Private Sector Initiatives.
Johnny received his Bachelor of Science in Communication, with general honors, from the University of Miami; Master of Arts in Mass Communication, with honors, from Drake University; and Doctor of Jurisprudence, with honors, from the Drake University Law School, where he served as Research Editor of the Drake Law Review and argued on the National Moot Court Team. He is a member of the Florida, Illinois and Washington, D.C. bars, and holds a Senior Professional in Human Resources (SPHR) certification.
I’m exhausted just from reading Johnny’s resume. But not Johnny – he relishes responding to hardball questions that get his passions brewing: you know you’re in for a wild ride when he says, “No one ever had the guts to ask me that before.”