Profile: Jeffrey L. Humber, Jr.
Mr. Humber is president and chief executive officer of Delon Hampton and Associates engineering and consulting firm.
He received his juris doctorate degree from the University of Virginia School of Law in 1978. Prior to his current position, Mr. Humber was senior vice president, head of global diversity, for Merrill Lynch and Co., Inc. Part of his responsibilities were to develop new approaches to diversity training for managers, and better training techniques and methods to give women and minority financial advisors a higher success rate and reduced rates of attrition.
From 1982 to 1984, he was director of the Department of Finance and Revenue for the Government of the District of Columbia, serving as a member of the Mayor's Cabinet and developing the city's revenue budget, among other tasks.
One of Mr. Humber's three children attended the Kendall Demonstration Elementary School (KDES) on the Gallaudet campus in the early 1980s, and his wife, Willa, was employed at KDES during this time.
