Michael McCleery

Michael McCleery was born in Chicago, Ill. Aug. 18th 1959 to Robert S. McCleery and Virginia Kavanaugh McCleery. Shortly thereafter the family moved to Nashville, Tenn. where his father, an M.D. and vascular-surgeon, taught surgery at Vanderbilt Medical School, where a scholarship exists in his honor. Having been a thrice decorated WW-II officer in the U.S. Army who created the very first surgical team to jump w/Army Paratroopers in the Far-East theatre he was very influential in seeing that WW-II veterans were given their just-due in post-war medical care. The family ancestry is of mixed Scotch-Irish, Irish, German, French & English & Michael was raised in the Irish-Catholic religion.