Tex Ford

Tex Ford was born on Valentine’s Day, 1952, in Wichita Falls, Texas. He grew up in Miami, Florida and attended the University of Florida, where he earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Secondary Education. Tex worked in the Miami-Dade County Public School system as an English teacher two different times, first in the 1970’s and lastly from 2000 to 2004. He was chosen by the University of Miami’s AMBIENT teaching program as one of their Master teachers. Tex also has extensive experience in the business world. He worked for over eighteen years for the Federal Express Corporation, where he was a Senior Manager of Ground Operations. In addition to his weekday employment, Tex served for over two decades at a Baptist Church in Miami, where he held the offices of Sunday School Director, Discipleship Training Director, Chairman of Deacons and Bible Teacher. In 1994, he was ordained as the Associate Pastor of the church. He resigned that position in October of 2003. After that, Tex served as Interim Pastor of a United Methodist Church in Miami. During his tenure there, he wrote and performed several Christian songs, based on the melodies from popular top forty hits. He is currently working on a video Bible study class to be broadcast on YouTube and on a new Web Site designed by his daughter. Tex lives in Miami with his wife of 40 years. His children all attended and graduated from the University of Miami on academic scholarships. His oldest daughter is a Pediatric Pathologist. His son is a sleep Technologist and his youngest daughter is a Quality Assurance Engineer with a large Technology company. Tex is currently employed by a local Municipality as the Director of the Building and Code Compliance Departments. His wife, Linda, works for the University Of Miami School Of Law. Tex plans to retire in 2015 in order to write full time.