Contribution:
First African American Executive Director of the Lansing Schools Education Association (1971); First to be elected to a statewide office in Michigan, the Michigan State Board of Education (elected President twice) (1976); First to lead the Michigan Goodwill Mission to Shiga, Japan; First Secretary-Treasurer for the National Association of State Boards of Education and First to serve as Senior Domestic Policy to a major party vice-presidental candidate..