His Excellency Michael Teilmann
Grand Chancellor
Born in San Francisco, California, Michael Teilmann received his initial formal education in the parochial school systems of San Francisco and Marin Counties. He attended college at the University of California, Berkeley, and in the United Kingdom, earning a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Journalism from Rochdale College. He holds an honorary doctorate from the Peninsula Institute of Information, Technology and Business. In the fall of 2001, he was elected an Advisor of the International Academy of Sciences, Education, Industry and Arts. In January 2007 The University of Phoenix accorded him the title of Honorable Professor of Academic Leadership.
A television producer,
TV Host and narrator in Hollywood, Teilmann's recent projects included assignment as a producer for the highly-acclaimed three-part television series
Y2K-America in Crisis, for CBS-TV and as co-producer and writer of America's Street of Dreams - The Hollywood Walk of Fame for American Movie Classics (AMC). He served as a producer for America, A Call to Greatness for NBC-TV; as producer/director of 100 celebrity
TV public service announcements for the White House and FEMA, and as a producer for the A&E Network's Biography TV specials on a number
of very distinguished Hollywood stars. He garnered personal producer and writer Emmy nominations for his efforts in 1994, 1995 and 1996 as the
producer of the famed Hollywood Christmas Parade. He was the producer and Tour Manager for the USO's entertainment tours to Kosovo, Bosnia and
Macedonia in 1999 and to Seoul, Korea in 2000 and 2001. He produced a Christmas USO tour to entertain the troops at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba in 2006.
In May of 2010 Teilmann served as host and emcee for a USO event show in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
Teilmann's previous productions have included Hollywood Remembers Marilyn, commemorating the life of fabled film star Marilyn Monroe, and the internationally-telecast Welcome Home Desert Storm parade and observances in Hollywood., He brought to these impressive projects the talents he has honed from more than 35 years of internationally-recognized achievement in the field of mass communication.
For the past nine years he has served full time as Executive Director of the Bob Hope Hollywood USO at LAX, one of the premiere USO Centers in the world.
MILITARY SERVICE
Originally commissioned in the Infantry, Teilmann additionally was branch qualified and graduated from both the Basic and the Advance Course of the
United States Army Institute of Administration. In addition to his Career Branch Schools, he is a graduate of the Defense Information School, Fort Benjamin
Harrison, Indiana, The Department of Defense Joint Service Integration Course; the Army Recruiting and Retention Senior Seminar and was a Reserve
Component student at the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College. Upon returning from Vietnam, where he voluntarily served as a Public Affairs
special projects officer and in Psychological Warfare, he served on active mil足itary duty for six years, completing that assignment as Chief of Public Affairs
for the California National Guard, at the Office of the Adjutant General, Sacramento, CA. He also served two assignments in Europe on active duty with
NATO for the National Guard Bureau. As a member of the United States Army Reserve, he served as Executive Officer and commander (acting) for HQ 4th
Battalion (Provisional) 6396th RTU and next as Community Relations Officer, 6325th IMA Detachment (PA), USAR, Office of the Secretary of the Army.
Transitioning to State Guard status, he served the California State Military Reserve as commander of the 40th Infantry Division (Mech) Support Brigade
the largest field unit in the State -- from 1996 to 1999, and following that duty was appointed Special Assistant to the Commanding General of the 40th
Infantry Division (Mech) of the California Army National Guard. On 1 January 2001, he was promoted to (State-recognized) Brigadier General in the
South Carolina National Guard's Support Command, and assigned as Military Media Directorate.
His military awards and decorations include: The Meritorious Service Medal (w/2 oak leaf clusters), the Joint Service Commendation Medal, the Army Commendation Medal (w/2 oak leaf clusters), the Joint Service Achievement Medal, the Army Achievement Medal (w/1 oak leaf cluster), and a number of National Guard and Army Reserve awards. He holds the staff badge of the Secretary of Defense for service at the Pentagon, and was awarded the Army National Guard Recruiter Badge.
During his 1973 service at NATO in Mons, Belgium, he was recognized with a military order of knighthood. A second European Order of Knight Commander was bestowed upon him in Early 1990. In 2000 he was accorded the rank of Grand Cross of the Military Order of Saint Constantine the Great, and in 2006 was awarded the Grand Collar of the Order, its highest honor. He is a member of the British Academy of Film & Television Arts; Chairman Emeritus of the Los Angeles Mayor's Committee on Military and Veterans Affairs. He currently serves the Chief, Army Reserve as a United States Army Reserve Ambassador for the State of California