Background
Bivens, Ruben was born on June 2, 1950 in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Son of Albert and Anna Mae (Scruggs) Banks.
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Ruben Bivens
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Bachelor of Science in Education, Eastern Illinois University, 1973. Master of Science in Industrial Education, Murray (Kentucky) State University, 1982. Postgraduate, University Wisconsin, 1993.
Career
Teacher, Lockport (Illinois) East High School, 1973-1976; administrator clerk, United States Marine Corps. Reserve 4th Marine, Glenview, Illinois, 1976-1980; systems engineer trainee, International Business Machines Corporation Company, Peoria, Illinois, 1977; machine tool operator, Caterpillar Tractor Company, Peoria, 1977-1981; graduate teaching assistant, Murray State University, 1981-1982; instructor, Blackhawk Technology College, Janesville, Wisconsin, 1982-1986; associate chairperson industrial occupations division, Blackhawk Technology College, Janesville, Wisconsin, 1986-1993; assistant principal, North Division High School, Milwaukee, since 1993. Student club advisor Industrial Occupations Club, Janesville, since 1989.
Achievements
Membership
Member Beloit (Wisconsin) City Plan Commission, 1986. Executive member National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, 1983-1986, executive treasurer, 1985-1986. Usher, member male choir Emmanuel Baptist Church, Beloit, since 1984.
Member National Association for Advancement of Black Americans in Vocational Education (board directors 1991), American Vocational Association, Wisconsin Vocational Association, Blackhawk Technology Association (affiliate board 1985-1989), Masons.
Interests
Connections
Married Natalia Mitchell, March 21, 1975 (divorced October 1976). Children: Staci Bivens, Jennifer Bivens. Married Pastelle Richardson, April 26, 1986.
Children: William Ellis, Donnyea Ellis.
