Fred B. McKinley is a descendant of Revolutionary War, War of 1812, War for Texas Independence and Confederate soldiers, a Texas Ranger, and whose father served in the U.S. Navy during World War II. He embarked on a long and distinguished career in the credit industry and retired with the Louisiana Department of Justice, where he served as a supervisory criminal investigator with the Attorney General’s office. A native of Beaumont, Texas, McKinley graduated from Lamar State College of Technology (1964) and Lamar University (1987). He attended Louisiana State University (1995), where he received a law enforcement certification.