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Kennedy graduated from University of Colorado at Boulder with a fine art degree in 1962.
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He and Dan Wieden were listed as number 22 on the Advertising Age 100 ad people of the 20th century. In 1962, he moved to Chicago to work in the advertising industry. During the "60s and "70s he worked for Leo Burnett Worldwide and Young & Rubicam in Chicago before moving to Portland, Oregon in 1979.
He met Dan Wieden at the ad agency of McCann-Erickson in Portland while working on the Nike, Incorporated. account in 1980.
They took Nike with them as a client in 1982 and remain the agency of record. Kennedy retired in December 1993, but continues to work part-time on the American Indian College Fund, a pro bono account for West+K. In retirement he makes metal sculptures and resides in Clackamas County southeast of Oregon City.
