Jere Ratcliffe

Jere Brian Ratcliffe is a retired professional Scouter in the Boy Scouts of America who was the ninth Chief Scout Executive.

Ratcliffe grew up in Springfield, Ohio, where he met his wife, the former Judy Jones. He was awarded Eagle Scout in 1955. After graduating from Wittenberg University in 1959, he volunteered at the Scout center of the North Florida Council in Jacksonville, Florida. He decided to make a career as a Scouting professional and attended the National Training School. His first position was as the district executive in the Blue Ridge Council of Greenville, South Carolina. He was first assigned as a Scout executive in 1976, later becoming the Scout executive of the Heart of America Council in Kansas City, Missouri where he became Chief Soaring Lone Eagle of the Tribe of Mic-O-Say. He was then the Scout executive for the Chicago Area Council.

On February 1 1993, he accepted the position of the Chief Scout Executive and moved to National in Irving, Texas. In April 1997, Ratcliffe was arrested at Miami International Airport when the security scan showed he had inadvertently left a handgun in his luggage. [] He received an honorary doctor of humane letters degree from Wittenberg in 2004. [] Ratcliffe currently lives in Southlake, Texas and serves on the coordinating committees of the World Organization of the Scout Movement and the World Foundation.

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* [http://hoac-bsa.org/Chieftain_RatcliffeJ.cfm Jere Ratcliffe Mic-O-Say biography]