Deborah Brooks, First Lady, Grace Central Church
Faithful, professional, determined, passionate, humble, and blessed; these are just a few words that describe Lady Deborah Brooks. Deborah Brooks, wife of National Recording Artist and Pastor of Grace Central Church in Westchester, IL, Dr. Darius Brooks, serves as Vice President and Outreach Coordinator for Grace Central Outreach, a non-profit organization that works alongside the mission of Grace Central Church to touch and invest in every life through the power of education and giving, thus providing economic and social mobility to the world’s poor. She also devotes her time to God, her family and the organization and growth of her church and is blessed with a daughter in her junior year of college at Texas Southern University in Houston, TX.
Mrs. Brooks also holds the offices of Chief Financial Officer of JMG Entertainment, LLC; Marketing Director and Booking Manger for both her husband, a Grammy Award winning producer and The Tommies Reunion Choir, also a Grammy Award winning artist; and Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of SDM Foundation for Education and the Arts, a non-profit foundation, through which young people who desire to pursue the performing arts as a career and/or a means of enhancing their lives are mentored.
She is a graduate of Northern Illinois University, where she received a bachelor’s degree in economics with a minor in music as well as a master’s in business administration with an emphasis in finance.
She also worked as a Commercial Lender for nearly 10 years. Most recently as Vice President of Middle Market Commercial Lending at The Northern Trust Company, handling a portfolio of both publicly and privately held companies ranging in size from $500,000 to over $5 billion in annual revenues.