Education
Born in Jacksonville, North Carolina, Maynard graduated from East Carolina University in 1965 with a Bachelor’s Degree in Psychology.
Born in Jacksonville, North Carolina, Maynard graduated from East Carolina University in 1965 with a Bachelor’s Degree in Psychology.
Along with William F. Carl, he conceived and opened the first Golden Corral restaurant in Fayetteville in 1973. He organized Investors Management Corporation and developed Golden Corral Family Steak House restaurant chain and other International Minerals and Chemical Corporation subsidiaries. Maynard is now the owner or franchisor of approximately 500 restaurants nationwide with sales in excess of $1.3 billion.
$9 million will go to the children"s hospital itself, while the other $1.5 million will fund a distinguished professorship in the Department of Pediatrics within The Brody School of Medicine.
The new name of the hospital will be the James & Connie Maynard Children"s Hospital.
