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EP18:♦️👌🏾Started from the Bottom...Now He's Here: Inner City Leadership Lesson

September 13, 2020 Geoffrey V. Dudley, Sr., Ph.D., D.Min. Season 2 Episode 18
iLead in Any Room Podcast
EP18:♦️👌🏾Started from the Bottom...Now He's Here: Inner City Leadership Lesson
Show Notes

Dr. Dudley discusses the way you rise in any circumstance to success with the International President of Kappa Alpha Psi, Reuben Shelton.  Don't miss this powerful testimony. 

Reuben A. Shelton retired as Lead Litigation Counsel for Monsanto Company where he handled antitrust and intellectual property litigation.  On August 3, 2019, he was sworn in as Grand Polemarch (International President) of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity Incorporated.

Before Monsanto, he was Special Chief Counsel in the Office for the Missouri Attorney General where he Co-led the lawsuit against the tobacco industry.  That lawsuit resulted in a 6.7 billion dollar settlement for Missouri, which is still the largest in the state’s history.  

Shelton has served in many civic and professional organizations.  He is Past President of the Bar Association of Metropolitan St. Louis, and the St. Louis Bar Foundation and is the first African American ever elected to those positions.  He is Past President of the Missouri Bar Association, the second African American to hold that position and the first, and only one, from St. Louis.  

Shelton served on the governing boards of the Urban League of Metropolitan St. Louis, the NAACP, the Missouri Lottery Commission, St. Louis Children’s Hospital Development Board, the St. Louis University Board of Regents, the University City School Board and was President of the Lincoln University Board of Curators.  He is Past-President of the Legal Services of Eastern Missouri Board of Directors and served as a member of the Board of Directors of the Fathers and Families Support Center in St. Louis.  

He currently serves as a member on the Missouri Bar Association Board of Trustees and is Vice President of the Missouri Development Finance Board, a body that funds major development projects across the State of Missouri. He is also a member of the Board of Directors and the Executive Committee of United Way of Greater St. Louis.   

Shelton earned a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Kansas where he was Captain of the basketball team, a Juris Doctorate degree from St. Louis University, and a Master of Business Administration degree from Washington University in St. Louis.  

He has received many Fraternity, civic and professional awards, too many to mention here, and was inducted into the Order of the Fleur De Lis, the St. Louis University Law School Hall of Fame, the highest honor the school bestows.

He has been married to his wife D’Anne for 41 years and they have three daughters, five grandsons and one great grandson.  


 

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