Leonard Perkins announces candidacy for US House district 8 seat
JACKSON, Tenn. — Leonard Perkins, a retired USAF air traffic controller, is contending for the U.S. House seat currently occupied by David Kustoff.
Perkins is present of All Veterans of America and founder of All Veterans Golfplex and Adaptive Sports Center, a 46-acre therapeutic facility dedicated to making veterans and their families whole again.
Perkins was born in Memphis, Texas. He served in the US Air Force from 1973 to 1977. He earned a bachelor’s degree from Crichton College in 1997 and a graduate degree from the Memphis theological seminary in 2012.
He also earned a military citation from the Air Force School of Applied Aerospace Sciences in 1974.
“As an air traffic controller, I handled Air Force One on a missile base in California. The president at that time was Ronald Reagen, and we handled presidential movement. Not an expert on national security but what’s going on right now, it’s nowhere near what national security looks like. And I’m afraid if we don’t hurry up and do something to control this nosedive that we’re in, our country is going to be no more,” said Perkins.
Perkins is also member of the Memphis Library Foundation Board and Hospice Care Volunteer performing end of life counseling and rites.
And was the pastor and founder of Patmos Island Community Church in Memphis for 23 years.
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