Jim McClure is an actively retired public relations consultant and freelance writer in Los Lunas, New Mexico.
My so-called retirement
After I stopped working for money I served as an advisory board member of the National Stuttering Association and as the consumer representative to the American Board on Fluency and Fluency Disorders. I co-authored a book that published in 2012 and currently serve as a consumer member of the American Speech-Langiuage-Hearing Association’s Council for Clinical Certification. I take on occasional volunteer projects to keep my hand in professionally but allow plenty of time for the usual retired stuff.
Career(s)
I studied journalism at Northwestern University, worked briefly as a newspaper reporter and gravitated into public relations. I spent 22 years at Illinois Bell and Western Electric with assignments in employee communications, opinion research, media relations, executive speeches, technology information and community relations during a period of dramatic change in the telecommunications industry. In 1990 I started my own consulting/writing practice in Chicago, James A. McClure Communications, and worked with corporate, agency and association clients in foodservice, health care, telecommunications, information technology and community development.
Meanwhile, I joined the Navy in 1964 and served at a joint forces base in Albuquerque, on a minesweeper in Vietnam and as an admiral’s speechwriter at the Great Lakes naval base near Chicago. I stayed in the reserves as a public affairs officer, commanded two reserve units and retired as a captain.
Associations
National Stuttering Association: Hall of Fame award 2007
Public Relations Society of America: College of Fellows, 2006
Contact
My email is jim@jamcclure.com