💁🏾‍♀️ (Submitted by Ariel T. ’20)

✈️President of the Atlanta Youth Congress
✈️Graduated from Booker T. Washington High School in 1971
✈️Graduated from Dartmouth College
✈️Earned law degree from the University of Virginia’s School of Law
✈️Appointed by President Jimmy Carter as associate chief counsel of the president’s Commission on the Accident at Three Mile Island in Middletown, Pennsylvania
✈️Served as Vice President of Public Finance with Oppenheimer and Company
✈️Launched Air Atlanta in 1984, just four years after he presented a business plan to the National Alliance of Postal and Federal Employees (NAPFE) to create a BLACK-OWNED AIRLINE.
✈️Established Hollis Communications alongside Atlanta developer, H.J. Russell
✈️Established Blue-Sky Petroleum Co. with his older brother, James B. Arnold. Blue-Sky owned dozens of convenience and petroleum retail stores in metro Atlanta. ✈️Alongside another brother, Julius Hollis, formed a partnership with JP Morgan Chase to establish Nevis Securities, LLC, a registered black-owned financial services company.
✈️Appointed by President George W. Bush as executive director of the U.S Virgin Islands Housing Authority
✈️Appointed by the Fulton County Commissioner to serve on the Board of Directors for the Fulton-DeKalb Hospital Authority (formerly Grady Hospital). #forBTWbyBTW #BHM2020 #AIRATLANTA #BLACKOWNEDBUSINESS #DARTMOUTHGRAD
Source: BlackPast
Image Credit: In The Arena: The High-Flying Life of Air Atlanta Founder Michael Hollis