Born Jeremiah David Hoggard Jr. (September 4th, 1934 - March 20th 2009), son of J. David Hoggard and step son of Verlia Davis Hoggard, moved to Las Vegas in 1942 after his birth mother had passed away. He graduated from Las Vegas High School in 1952. He worked at the Community College of Southern Nevada (currently College of Southern Nevada or CSN) as the dean of several departments before retiring in 1994. He also was temporarily the director of the Community College of Southern Nevada for a year, and then returned to the same college to work as a Night Dean until his death. He was also one of Nevada’s delegates to the Democratic National Convention in 2000, was a member of the Las Vegas NAACP Chapter, and was the manager for the 2000 Clark County Census Bureau.