Clark Durant was born on May 13,1949 and is co-founder and former CEO of the Cornerstone Schools, a group of charter and independent schools in the inner city of Detroit.
26 Facts About Clark Durant
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Clark Durant attended Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana, and graduated in 1971 with an economics major.
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Clark Durant was in the Reserve Officers' Training Corps and graduated as a second lieutenant in the US Army Transportation Corps.
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Clark Durant served 3 months of active duty at Fort Eustis, Virginia in 1971, then went into the Reserves and was honorably discharged as a captain.
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Clark Durant received a JD from Notre Dame Law School in 1976.
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Clark Durant co-founded and started Imprimis, a monthly speech digest with a 2010 circulation over 2 million, described by Salon.
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Clark Durant served as the first director of Hillsdale's Center for Constructive Alternatives and established the Washington-Hillsdale Intern Program.
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In 1991, Clark Durant was one of the co-founders of the Cornerstone Schools with Adam Cardinal Maida.
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Clark Durant served as chairman of the board from 1991 to 2003, and CEO from 2003 to 2009.
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In 1994, Clark Durant was elected to the State Board of Education in Michigan, and served as president of the board.
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Clark Durant stepped down four years later, in 1999, to focus on education in Detroit through the Cornerstone Schools.
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In 1995, Clark Durant was named a Michiganian of the Year by the Detroit News for his work in education.
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In 2004, Clark Durant created, and with Arnold Palmer co-hosted The Turning Point Invitational golf tournament, which commemorated the 50th anniversary of Palmer's 1954 victory of the US Amateur at Country Club of Detroit.
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Clark Durant has been a member of various educational boards and organizations throughout Michigan.
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In 1983, Clark Durant was appointed by then Secretary of Transportation Elizabeth Dole as the bankruptcy trustee for the Ann Arbor Railroad, a state-owned, state-subsidized railroad with approximately $100 million in debt and claims.
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Clark Durant served as trustee from 1983 to 1988, turning the railroad into a profitable private-sector enterprise.
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In 1984, Clark Durant was nominated by President Ronald Reagan and confirmed by the US Senate to serve on the board of the Legal Services Corporation.
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From 1997 to 2001, Clark Durant was director of the Private Management Group at Munder Capital Management, an investment firm in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan.
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Clark Durant has been a member of the board of Michigan Chamber of Commerce.
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Clark Durant represented Michigan on the 1984 Republican National Committee Platform Committee where he helped draft the party platform on which President Reagan ran for and won his landslide re-election.
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From 1986 to 1988, Clark Durant served as one of four national co-chairs of Jack Kemp's presidential campaign.
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In 1990, Clark Durant ran in the Republican primary for US Senate, losing to former attorney general of Michigan, Bill Schuette.
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At the request of Governor John Engler, Clark Durant ran for the Michigan Supreme Court, and later the State Board of Education.
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Clark Durant ran for the United States Senate in the 2012 Republican primary.
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Clark Durant lost the Republican nomination to former representative Pete Hoekstra.
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Clark Durant was officially accepted into the Association of Churchill Fellows for 2018 during the organization's weekend activity at the Westminster College campus.