Sunday, February 17, 2008
WARREN — Five entrepreneurs will be inducted Saturday into the Trumbull County African-American Achievers Association Hall of Fame.
The 23rd annual inductee dinner will be at 6 p.m. at DeVieste’s Banquet Hall, 754 North Road.
Those being inducted are: Arthur Vaughn, Gloria Duren, Melanie Jones, Felicia Pruitt-Davis and Irene Alexander.
Cuyahoga County Commissioner Peter Lawson Jones will be keynote speaker. He is the only black county commissioner in Ohio and served as vice mayor and a councilman in Shaker Heights.
He graduated from Harvard and the Harvard Law School. Jones is a partner in the law firm of Roetzel & Andress, working in the firm’s Cleveland office as part of its public law group.
He previously was the first black to run for Ohio’s lieutenant governor and served as special counsel to the Ohio attorney general and associate bar examiner for the Ohio Supreme Court.
Read the full story, including brief biographies of each inductee, Monday in The Vindicator and on Vindy.com.