User:Pinevillecyclone/Dennis Shockley

Dennis Monleauh Shockley (born September 26, 1947 in San Diego, California) is the Executive Dierctor of the Oklahoma Housing Finance Agency, a position he has held since 1997. He is a graduate of Louisiana Tech University.

Shockley holds a Ph.D. from Kansas State University in history and has taught at a number of colleges in Missouri, Kansas and Oklahoma. He is best known academically for his biography of U. S. Senator George S. McGill of Kansas and associated articles. He recently co-authored How We Lived: A Pictorial History of Oklahomans and the Places They Called Home, which was designated as an official project of the Oklahoma Centennial Commission. How We Lived was a 2009 Oklahoma Book Award finalist.

In 1999, he completed the Program for Senior Executives in State and Local Government at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. He is a member of the board of directors of the National Council of State Housing Agencies.

http://www.ohfa.org/OHFA/new/About/teamleaders.htm

http://www.ncsha.org/section.cfm/2/19

http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=m000447

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oklahoma_Housing_Finance_Agency