Michael Gardner (1954- ) was born in Metropolis, Illinois, to a preacher from the Church of Christ and his homemaker wife. Early in life, his family moved about every three years to states from Mississippi to Kansas. Michael turned 18 in Ghana, West Africa. He attended Freed-Hardeman University, and graduated with a degree in Accounting. For the next twenty years he practiced in Public Accounting. For the last 16 of those he had his own firm in South Arkansas. For the next seven years he worked in private accounting in Alabama and North Carolina before returning to Public Accounting in Georgia...