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    Deloris Jordan

    By Kerri Lee Alexander, NWHM Fellow |

    Known as the mother of the greatest basketball player of all time, Deloris Jordan is more than just Michael Jordan’s mom. Mrs. Jordan has established multiple charities and has served as the President and Founder of the James R. Jordan Foundation for almost two decades. She has also established the Kenya Women and Children's Wellness Centre in Nairobi, Kenya.  Honored with the Clinton Global Initiative Award in , she continues to give back to her community through the programs she develops.

    Deloris Jordan was born as Deloris Peoples in September of She was born in Rocky Point, North Carolina and attended Charity High School in Rose Hill, North Carolina. While at a school basketball game in , she met a fellow classmate on the basketball team named James Raymond Jordan Sr. Although her brothers would often play basketball with Jordan Sr. at the Pender County Training School, she met him for the first time at their scho

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    All About Michael Jordan's Parents, Deloris and James R. Jordan, Sr.

    Michael Jordan has his parents, Deloris and James R. Jordan, Sr., to thank for getting him started in sports.

    Considered the greatest basketball player of all time, Michael won six NBA championships with the Chicago Bulls. They made history as the only team at the time to complete two "three-peats," winning three consecutive championships from to and to Michael's parents supported him through all of his milestone moments and were the ones who insisted that he sign up for local sports as a child.

    In his ESPN docuseries The Last Dance, Michael recalled in the first episode how his parents were always "trying to keep me busy" and encouraged all their children to play organized sports to teach them "more about life."

    "We had five kids, and both the wife and inom both worked, and we would worry at times about the kids being home," James said in archival footage in the series. "So

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    Jordan, Deloris

    PERSONAL:

    Married James Raymond Jordan (a businessman; died July 23, ); children: James Ronald, Deloris E., Larry, Michael, Roslyn M. Religion: Christian.

    ADDRESSES:

    Home—Chicago, IL.

    CAREER:

    Author, philanthropist, and motivational speaker. Michael Jordan Foundation, founder; James R. Jordan Foundation, president; Nairobi Women and Children's Hospital, member of board; De'Laro, Inc./Family First, founder and president. U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration National Demand Reduction Advisory Council, member, —.

    AWARDS, HONORS:

    Family Resilience Award, University of Chicago Center for Family Health, ; Raoul Wallenberg Humanitarian Award, ; Black Harvest Film Festival Board established the Deloris Jordan Humanitarian Award in her honor, ; Clinton Global Initiative Award, , for work in Kenya; numerous other awards.

    WRITINGS:

    Family First: Winning the Parenting Game, Harper-SanFrancisco (San Francisco, CA),

    (With daughter, Roslyn M. Jordan) Salt in His