Raymond Richards:  

Life Senator Usie Raymond Richards is currently the Minority Leader of the 25th Legislature of the U.S. Virgin Islands. Usie Raymond Richards was born to the late Verne I. Richards and Ernestine S. Lenhardt Richards on January 12, 1956. Usie Richards is married to the former Beverly Henry and the father of Amarae, Nneka, Nailah, and Askia. He attained a catholic education at both St. Patrick’s School and St. Joseph High School, which he completed in 1973. In his pursuit of higher education Usie Richards began his studies at Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee, in August of 1973. In January of 1974 he became one of the first students to enroll in a dual university program offered at Meharry Medical College, also in Nashville, Tennessee. In May of 1977 he graduated from both Fisk University and Meharry Medical College with a B.A. and Certificate in Health Care Administration and Planning. Determined to return home, he turned down an Assistant Hospital Administrator position in Cincinnati, Ohio, and on September 27, 1977 was hired by the Virgin Islands Department of Health, with the Bureau of Health Planning and Resources Development, as a Health Plan Developer II. He worked at the Department of Health until 1995, when he left as the Assistant Director of Health Planning for the Bureau of Health Planning and Statistics. In 1995 he joined the ...Expand for more