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“If I had an X-ray done today, the doctor would find a picture of LMC in my heart,” is��how Captain James F.A. Turner feels about the impact Lake Michigan��College has had on his life, giving him a solid foundation for his career.��

At LMC, James and his brother Clifton were starting guards on the basketball team,��and he was also elected freshman class student representative. He never really left LMC, as he is a founding member of the LMC Alumni Association Board of Directors,��and also established the Federal Court Community Education Council office at LMC.

After earning his Associate in Arts degree in 1960 from LMC, he earned a Bachelor��of Science degree in Police Administration from Omaha University in 1967, a Master��of Arts degree in Urban Studies from the University of Nebraska-Omaha in 1976,��then a Master of Arts degree in Executive Development for Public Service from Ball��State University in 1978.

Known as the “father” of military civil rights education, in 1968 he established the��first Military Human Relations Council. He also initiated and taught the first race relations and equal opportunity classes in the Air Force. From 1971 to 1973, he was��a consultant to President Richard Nixon’s secretary of defense on these matters.

James Turner received the��Clarence Beckwith Distinguished Alumni Award in 2012.