Vernon Parker
| Vernon Parker | |
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| Mayor of Paradise Valley, Arizona | |
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In office 2008–2010 |
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| Personal details | |
| Born |
November 16, 1959 Houston, Texas |
| Political party | Republican |
| Residence | Paradise Valley, Arizona |
| Alma mater | Georgetown University Law Center |
| Occupation | Paradise Valley Councilmember |
| Religion | Christian |
| Website | Campaign website |
Vernon B. Parker (born November 16, 1959) is an American politician. He is a member of the Republican Party. Parker served as the Mayor of Paradise Valley, Arizona from 2008 to 2010 and as a Paradise Valley councilmember.
Parker was the Republican nominee in Arizona's 9th congressional district for the 2012 election, although he did not live in the district at the time.
Parker was born in Houston, Texas to a poor mother and was eventually sent to live with his grandmother in Long Beach, California. He did well in high school and attended Long Beach Community College. He then attended California State University, Long Beach where he majored in Finance, and upon graduation began to work at Rockwell International. He purchased a house at this time, but sold it when he got an offer to attend Georgetown University Law School. At Georgetown, he served as editor-in-chief of the Georgetown American Criminal Law Review. His grandmother and mother worked cleaning houses to help him make it through law school, and his brother gave him all the money he could spare. "I realized that me going to law school was not as an individual, but as something for my family, something for my community." He said in an interview with the American Spectator.
At law school, after being spurned by graduates of Ivy League Universities, he was part of a study group with non-Ivy League students, where he met his future wife, who had attended Arizona State.
Parker once had his own law firm as well as his own small business. Parker had served as interim pastor of his church. He is a Member of Greater Phoenix Salvation Army Advisory Board, he had served on the board of Christian Family Care Agency and served on the board of Starshine Academy Charter School.
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