Jerry Hissong

Jerry Hissong

After graduating from Bowling Green State University, Jerry served in the Army for 28 years and retired at the rank of Colonel. He joined the College of Social Work in 1959 and after graduating in 1961, he began working in the treatment staff at the Department of Corrections. He was later promoted to Supervisor of Social Services, Ohio Reformatory for Women in Marysville. Six months later, he assumed superintendency of a new camp for delinquent boys in Eastern Kentucky. A year later, he was promoted to Assistant SuperintendentTreatment at Kentucky Village in Lexington, a facility for 485 delinquent children. In the fall of 1967, he accepted the Superintendent of Ormsby Village position in Louisville. In 1973, he got the position of Commissioner of Social Services. In 1976, Jerry got a new job in Washington D.C. with the American Public Welfare Association (APWA).

In 1979, he helped write a proposal to the Department of Health and Human Services for a training program for social work managers and supervisors. He served as the project manager for three years. By the end of 1983, he started his own counseling firm, Hissong Associations, Inc. in Northern Virginia.