| Summary: | Government appointee and lawyer Ralph Bernard Everett was born on June 23, 1951, in Orangeburg, South Carolina. He graduated from Morehouse College in 1973, and received his J.D. degree from Duke University in 1976. Everett worked as a lawyer for the North Carolina Department of Labor in Raleigh and became Chief Counsel and Staff Director of the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation in 1986. Everett was the first African American to be named partner at the law firm, Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker in 1989. Everett also advised several U.S. presidential campaigns and was the senate liaison to the Clinton-Gore Presidential Campaign in 1992. He served as the U.S. Ambassador to the 1998 International Telecommunication Union's Plenipotentiary Conference in Minneapolis. In 2007, Everett became president and CEO of the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies. Everett has one son with his wife, Dr. Gwendolyn Harris Everett, and lives in Alexandria, Virginia.
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