Kevin L. Antoine, JD
Kevin LaVigne Antoine, JD
Associate Vice President, Government Relations and Chief Diversity Officer
Kevin LaVigne Antoine, JD, is the Associate Vice President (AVP) for Community and Government Relations and Chief DEI Officer at Bucks County Community College. He is ex-military. He served in the US Air Force as an air battle manager controlling US fighter aircraft in air combat training, intercepting hostile aircraft approaching North American air space, air refueling, and search and rescue missions.
In addition, he is a former Fulbright Specialist Scholar. The Fulbright Program is the world's most prestigious international program. Fulbright Specialist Scholars consult and lecture at colleges and universities worldwide. He is also a former Harvard School of Public Health Fellow. He earned his Doctor of Law from the College of William & Mary Law School. He earned a BA in Political Science from the University of Southern Mississippi.
His legal expertise is in US Civil Rights law and the Reconstruction Laws written after the civil war. Twice he was a candidate for public office. In 1996 he was the first non-white candidate to win a political party's nomination to the US Congress from Mississippi's former majority-white 4th Congressional District. In 2018, he sought to become the first Independent elected to the New Jersey State Senate.
He is active in the Greater Bucks County community. He is a member of the Bucks County United Way board of directors, a member of the Stakeholders Committee of the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (SEPTA), and a member and chair of the City of Newtown, PA, Human Relations Commission.
Over his distinguished career, he has been the recipient of awards that included the Philadelphia Business Journal Armed Services Veteran of Influence Award, City Council of New York City Citation for Community Service, Omega Psi Phi Fraternity Trailblazer Award, Becker's Hospital Review One of 15 Health and Hospitals Chief Diversity Officers to Know, and the Diversity Visionary Award from Insight Into Diversity Magazine.
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