Deloris Jordan

ABOUT DELORIS JORDAN

Mother of former Chicago Bulls legend Michael Jordan . She established multiple charities and served as the President and Founder of the James R. Jordan Foundation for almost two decades. She was honored with the Clinton Global Initiative Award in 2005.

She attended Charity High School in Rose Hill, North Carolina. While at a school basketball game in 1954, she met her future husband.

She worked as a homemaker and bank clerk. She established the Kenya Women and Children's Wellness Centre in Nairobi, Kenya. She was the author of "In My Family's Shadow."

In 1993, her husband, James Raymond Jordan Sr. , was murdered. She has five children, James Jr., Larry, Deloris, Roslyn, and of course Michael Jordan .

Her son is a longtime friend of Charles Barkley .