Dr. Judson Haynes III, grew up living all over the globe as a result of his fathers’ Naval Military career and considers himself a native of Daytona Beach, Florida and San Francisco, California. Dr. Haynes is a Senior Scientist at P&G in Cincinnati, Ohio and his work focuses on scientific visual communications for P&G's Global Beauty Care Business.Prior to joining P&G, Dr. Haynes obtained a bachelor’s degree in Chemistry from Hampton University (Advisor: Dr. I.T. Urasa) and a Ph.D. in Analytical Chemistry at Louisiana State University (Advisor: Dr. Isiah Warner). The focus of Dr. Haynes’ graduate dissertation was Pseudo-stationary Phase Development for Chiral and Achiral Separations.

Following the rousing opening luncheon at the 2011 NOBCChE National Meeting, Dr. Warren M. Washington, a renowned climate-change scientist who received a National Medal of Science from President Barack Obama in 2010 and who was one of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize winners, gave the Henry A. Hill Lecture, entitled,  “Present and Future Climate Change: Grand Challenges for the Science, Engineering, and Society.”  The Henry A. Hill Lecture honors the first black president of the American Chemical Society, and was co-sponsored by the ACS Northeast Section and Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Chemistry Department.