Background
Keen, J. Velma was born on August 23, 1899 in Dublin, Georgia, United States. Son of James Henry and Elsie Iola (Bush) Keen.
Keen, J. Velma was born on August 23, 1899 in Dublin, Georgia, United States. Son of James Henry and Elsie Iola (Bush) Keen.
Student Georgia School Technology, 1916-1918, Oglethorpe University, 1917, U. Pittsburgh, 1919. Bachelor of Laws, University Florida, 1922, Bachelor of Arts, 1923. Doctor of Laws (honorary), Florida State University, 1959.
Leslie (Mistress Robert B. Drake). Admitted to Florida bar, 1922. Practice of law, Sarasota, 1922-1933, Tallahassee, since 1936.
Now member firm Keen, O’Kelley & Spitz, Tallahassee, Florida, chairman Board Public Instruction, Sarasota County, Florida, 1927-1929.
States attorney, Sarasota County, 1930. Assistant attorney general Florida, 1933-1936.
Chairman Circuit Court Commission, 1938-1950. President, director Leon Federal Savs & Loan Association, Tallahassee, since 1952, Marianna Coca-Cola Bottling Company, since 1954.
Director Title Insurance Company of the South.
Member of Regional Advisory Council Nuclear Energy, 1955-1961. Member Florida Advisory Council Education, 1949-1953. Member Florida Legislature, 1931.
President Southern Scholarship and Research Foundation, Incorporated.
Trustee Florida Southern College, since 1959. Served as private United States Army, 1918.
Member of the United States, Tallahassee (past president) C.’s of C., Florida History Society (past vice-president, director), National Citizens Council for Better Schools, American, Tallahassee bar associations, Florida Bar (president 1940), Newcomen Society North.A., Phi Kappa Phi. Mason, Kiwanian.
Married Mary Weedon, December 20, 1930.