Background
Barnes-Thornton, Lorna E. was born on January 5, 1958 in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Daughter of Clarence David Harty and Madeline Dorita (Sharpe) Littlejohn.
Barnes-Thornton, Lorna E. was born on January 5, 1958 in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Daughter of Clarence David Harty and Madeline Dorita (Sharpe) Littlejohn.
Graduate, Barbizon College, 1981; student, DePaul University, 1983-1985.
Secretary, Goldblatt's Brothers, Chicago, 1976-1978;
collection department secretary, 1st National Bank of Chicago, 1978-1979;
legal secretary, Mayer, Brown & Platt, 1980-1982;
placement counselor, DePaul University, 1984-1985;
account executive, Minority Economics Resources Corporation, Des Plaines, Illinois, 1985-1987;
president, chief Executive officer, L. Barnes & Associations, Inc., Chicago, since 1988;
founder, president, American's Back-To-Basics, Inc., Chicago, since 1987. Delegate Illinois Department Public Aid, Springfield, Illinois, 1988-1989. Mentor Chicago Housing Authority, since 1989.
Model Chicago Police Department, since 1987. Participant Cosmopolitan Chamber of Commerce Entrepreneurial Training Program, 1987. Delegate Illinois White House Conference on Library. and Information Superior vena cava syndrome, 1990.
Member Student Education Association, Chicago, 1984, North Shore African-American Civic, Chicago, 1987, Project Joel. Member employment advisory board Midwest Women's Center, Chicago, 1987. President DePaulians Organizing an Employment Renaissance, Chicago, 1984.
Board directors Illinois Black United Fund, Chicago, 1988. Role model We Care motivational program Chicago Public Schools/Department Police. Consultant Black on Black Love Campaign, 1991.
Participant City of Chicago Proclamation Believe in Yourself Luncheon, 1989, Talent-N-Taylor awards benefit for Robert Taylor residents, 1990. Founder, spokesperson Citizens Against Propriety/Trade School Abuse. Advisory member Real Men project, Harold Washington College.
Lobbyist. Member National Association of Female Executives, National Organization of Women (chairman education committee, mid-south planning group, task force McCormick Place Expansion Project 1993), American Society for Training and Development, Chicago Focus on Education, Illinois Association Black Women Business Owners, Southside Literacy Coalition, Cosmopolitan Chamber of Commerce (vice president legislation affairs Chicago chapter since 1989), Urban League, United American Progress Association.
Married Andre Cadaryl Barnes, August 9, 1976 (divorced June 1988). Married Kirkland Thornton, August 6, 1991.