Millennium Magazine_8th Ed

299 Millennium - A Marquis Who’s Who Magazine SOCIAL SERVICES AND NONPROFIT INVESTMENT BANKER, PROFESSOR, CORPORATE AND NONPROFIT DIRECTOR Charleston, SC RECTOR Trinity Episcopal Church Yazoo City, MS RICHARD WINSTON THALER JR. A global investment banker and corporate and nonprofit director, Richard Thaler has been the director of Burger King of Puerto Rico since 2017, managing partner of Lieutenant Island Partners LLC since 2008, and review board member for Branford Castle & Company since 2016. Formerly, he was director of Singer Sewing Machine and Gordon Brothers, Vice Chairman of Investment Banking at Deutsche Bank Securities and Managing Director of Investment Banking at Lehman Brothers. Mr. Thaler has been instrumental in helping high-achieving African Americans attain jobs on Wall Street. He says that there are still not enough African Americans in top corporate finance jobs. Putting his belief into action, he has been a pro bono finance professor at Morehouse College since 2007 and also serves as a trustee and member of the executive committee of the college. He is the former vice chairman for the Upper Manhattan Empowerment Zone and a trustee of a new charter school (Learn4Life) in Charleston, South Carolina. As a young man, Mr. Thaler lived in Brazil, and is conversant in Portuguese. He earned a BA in American political history, cum laude, at Princeton University and an MBA at Harvard University. E ntering the priesthood after receiving a calling from God, George F. Woodliff III attended the University of Oxford in England, graduating with a BTh in 1995. First serving as a chaplain at Mississippi State University in Starkville between 1995 and 1998, he has since become a rector at the Trinity Episcopal Church in Yazoo City, Mississippi, beginning in 1998. Accomplished and humbled by his journey within the church, he authored the 2004 book, “Rediscovering Christian Orthodoxy in Episcopal Anglicanism.” Prior to his religious ventures, Mr. Woodliff was an attorney, having earned his JD from the University of Virginia in 1973. Admitted to practice in Mississippi, he served Heidelberg & Woodliff from 1973 until his legal retirement in 1991. There, he was an associate, managing partner and partner. Notably, he was admitted to the University of Mississippi Hall of Fame and is a distinguished member of Omicron Delta Kappa, as well as the founder of the Yazoo City Ministers Association. Married to his wife Jill since 1976, Mr. Woodliff has three beloved daughters: Lauren, Anna Rose and Elizabeth. Looking forward, he intends to continue contributing to the revival of the church. GEORGE F. WOODLIFF III