Reginald Lewis was born on December 7, 1942, in Baltimore, Maryland, and grew up in a middle class neighborhood. Reginald won a scholarship to Virginia State College and graduated with a degree in economics in 1965, he also graduated from Harvard Law School in 1966, in 1982, Forbes magazine listed Reginald Lewis among 400 richest Americas, with a net worth of $400 million He was the richest African American man in the 1980’s, Reginald was one of the first African Americans to build a billion dollar company, Beatrice Foods. Recruited to the top New York law firm Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP, immediately after law school. Lewis left to start his own law firm two years later, after fifteen years as a corporate lawyer with his own
