Career
President, Chief Executive Officer Lane Furniture Industries, 1970. Founder, president, Chief Executive Officer Action Industries (subsidiary Furniture Brands International Inc.), 1970-1996. President, chairman, Chief Executive Officer, Furniture Brands International Inc., St. Louis, 1996—2007, chairman, 1998—2008.
Board directors BancorpSouth, Inc., since 1994, Furniture Brands International, Inc., 2009.