Richard Choura

Richard J. Choura was born in Hartford, Connecticut. He graduated from Marianapolis Prep School in Thompson,Connecticut.

He served four years in the U.S. Air Force. He attended the University of Michigan, Mitchell College, the University of Wisconsin, the University of New Haven and graduated from the University of Hartford in Connecticut with a mechanical engineering degree. Afterward he attained the status of Professional Engineer. He worked as a consulting engineer for many well known consulting engineering firms and Fortune 500 companies in many states.

He is married and has two sons. He has been married to Patricia Blackett, an artist, for the last twenty years. She graduated from the University of Tennessee in Art Education. She was in many major art shows and galleries in Columbus, Ohio, Philadelphia, PA, and San Francisco, CA. She also graduated from the Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia, PA.