Talk:William P. MacKinnon

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William P. MacKinnon is a historian, management consultant, and community volunteer residing in Montecito, CA. He grew up in Schenectady, NY and Fort Wayne, IN. MacKinnon is an alumnus of the Mount Hermon (MA) School, and in 1960 earned a B.A. degree magna cum laude from Yale, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. He is a past Board Chairman of the Yale Library Associates and is an Associate Fellow of Yale’s Davenport College. In 1962 MacKinnon received an M.B.A. degree from the Harvard Business School. As an independent historian MacKinnon has published on the American West in more than thirty journals and monographs since 1963. The award-winning two volumes of his study of the Utah War of 1857-1858 (At Sword’s Point) were published in 2008 and 2016 by The Arthur H. Clark Company, an imprint of the University of Oklahoma Press. MacKinnon is a Fellow and an Honorary Life Member of the Utah State Historical Society as well as the recipient of its Dale L. Morgan and LeRoy S. Axland awards. He is also a member of the Crossroads (Utah) Chapter of the Oregon-California Trails Association. During 2010-11 MacKinnon was President of the Mormon History Association, which has also honored him with multiple awards including its Thomas L Kane Award. He is past Sheriff (presiding officer) of the Santa Barbara Corral of Westerners International. Since 1988 MacKinnon has been President and Founder of MacKinnon Associates, a strategy consulting firm providing counsel on organizational and management issues to Boards, CEOs, and other senior officers. Prior to that he was a financial and human resources executive with General Motors Corporation in New York and Detroit for twenty-five years. During 1982-87 he was Vice President in charge of GM’s corporate Personnel Administration and Development Staff. As a management consultant, MacKinnon has served more than seventy public and privately-held client companies in a wide range of industries while serving on the Board of several such organizations. As a community volunteer he is a Director of the Montecito Retirement Association and a former Director of Montecito’s Birnam Wood Golf Club. He has been Board Chairman of Children’s Hospital of Michigan and a Trustee of the Detroit Medical Center as well as of such educational institutions as the Birmingham, Michigan School Board, Kettering University, the University of Virginia’s Darden School, and the U.S. State Department’s Overseas Schools Advisory Council. With the Boy Scouts of America, he is an Eagle Scout and a member of the Order of the Arrow. MacKinnon served during 1962-68 in squadrons of the New York Air National Guard following active duty with the U.S. Air Force.

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