Dr. Henry Lucas, DDS, 77
By Posting Admin on June 4, 2009
Dr. Henry Lucas
Dr. Henry Lucas, noted San Francisco dentist, passed on June 1 at the age of 77.
Dr. Lucas was born on Feb. 27, 1932 in Rahway, New Jersey. He attended Howard University and received his B.S. degree in 1957. He completed his studies in dentistry at Meharry Medical College in Nashville, TN in 1960 and his postgraduate studies in orthodontics at the University of the Pacific in 1972.
Lucas started a private practice as a dental surgeon, the Sutter Place Dental Group in San Francisco, after serving as a dentist in the U.S. Air Force.
He was voted one of the top 10 dentists in the U.S. in 2004. A lecturer at the University of the California School of Dentistry and a past president of the California State Board of Dental Examinations, Lucas was also a Fellow of the American Academy of General Dentistry and a member of the American Cosmetic Dentistry.
An active Republican, Lucas was appointed by President Reagan to the President’s Commission on (Iran) Hostage Compensation in 1981. Lucas was also a member of the Minority Business Resource Center, the Foundation for the Advancement of Minority Enterprise (FAME) and the Martin Luther King Commission for the State of California.
He founded and served on the board of directors for the Time Savings and Loan Association. In 1997, he endowed the Henry Lucas, DDS, Scholarship Fund at Meharry Medical College to assist promising dental students.