The United Supreme Council Mentoring Committee was created under the term of Sovereign Grand Commander Solomon Wallace from his Cradle to College initiative Since 2013, Sovereign Grand Inspector General Horace J. Jackson, has served as the chairman of the committee which has advocated mentorship through Scottish Rite leadership across the Holy Empire. The efforts of this committee have helped thousands of youth matriculated into responsible
Worshipful Prince Hall Grand Lodge, Jurisdiction of Michigan. He served as Junior Warden, Senior Warden, and Worshipful Master of the lodge. He subsequently served as the Treasurer of the Lodge, the position which he currently holds to this date and has held for more than 20 years. While serving as Treasurer of his Lodge, he was elected as the Michigan Masonic Charity Fund Internal Auditor in 1992. He remained in that office until he was elected Right Worshipful Grand Treasurer of
citizens in their respective communities across the country. With the assistance of Sovereign Grand Inspector General Charles Burns, the program sprouted from a seed into a forest of trees and remains a key initiative of the United Supreme Council. Like many Scottish Rite Masons, Illustrious Jackson is a military veteran. He served three years in the United States Army from 1963 until 1966. In 1970, he married his lovely wife, Emma, with whom he celebrated fifty-five years of marriage in January of 2025. In 1977, he graduated from Wayne State University and began his career in the information technology arena. He spent thirty-eight years in the industry as a computer operator, mainframe computer programmer, systems analyst, and local area network administrator. He retired in 2006. Throughout his Masonic career, Illustrious Jackson was a natural fit for administrative roles which were likely due to his experience in the Information Technology arena and discipline from the armed forces. In 1984, he was Initiated and Passed and, in January of 1985, was Raised to the Sublime Degree of a Master Mason, in Geometry Lodge No. 49, of the Most
the MWPHGL, Jurisdiction of Michigan in 2003. He retired from that office in 2023, after serving for twenty years and was honored with the election to Right Worshipful Grand Treasurer, Emeritus in 2023. Illustrious Jackson has been a member of Wolverine Consistory No. 6, Orient of Michigan, Valley of Detroit, for many years. He was elevated to Grand Inspector General of the United Supreme Council in 2006. In 2013, Sovereign Grand Commander Solomon Wallace, appointed him Chairman of the USC ’ s Cradle to College Mentoring Program. In 2014, I was Coronated as a Sovereign Grand Inspector General, Emeritus. In 2023, Sovereign Grand Commander, Dr. Melvin J. Bazemore, reclassified him as an Active Member of the United Supreme Council. He continues to chair the Mentoring Committee while also serving as the Grand Treasurer of the Michigan Council of Deliberation and the Michigan Council of Deliberation Foundation. This spotlight is just the tip of the iceberg relative to the efforts of Illustrious Jackson who has been a columnist for the Bulletin for years. So, when you see Illustrious Jackson, be sure to give him a pat on the back for a job well done.
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