OZANNE CONSTRUCTION FOUNDED IN 1956

Dominic Ozanne is a member of several civic, educational, and professional groups such as the Case Western Reserve University Board of Trustees, the Cleveland Museum of Art Board of Trustees, the Construction Employers Association Board of Trustees, the Bishop’s Lay Finance Advisory Council of the Diocese of Cleveland, and the Knights of the Holy Sepulchre. He is a long-time member of The 100 Black Men of Greater Cleveland, Inc.

senior comments editor for the Harvard Civil Rights- Civil Liberties Law Review and received his J.D. in 1978. He is responsible for providing operational guidance and strategic leadership for the Company by working with top management and external partners to establish longrange goals, strategies, plans, and policies.

Ozanne worked briefly for the law firm Thompson, Hine, after which he joined the Ozanne Construction Company as general counsel in 1980. His father had founded the Company in 1956, making it one of the nation’s first blackowned construction companies. In 1990, Ozanne was named president and Chief Executive Officer of the Company.

in Workforce Diversity for middle market companies by the Greater Cleveland Partnership in 2011, 2013, and 2016, and has been listed in the top 100 Construction Management-for-Fee Firms by Engineering News-Record. The Company is a member of the U.S. Green Building Council and the Design-Build Institute of America.

Construction entrepreneur and chief executive

Dominic L. Ozanne was born on April 10, 1953, in Cleveland, Ohio, to Betty and Leroy Ozanne.

Ozanne earned his B.S./B.A. degree in finance from Boston University in 1975. He then attended Harvard Law School, where he was

Ozanne was awarded the 1991 Engineering New Record Award for Excellence and served as president of the National Association of Minority Contractors from 1989 to 1991. The Ozanne Construction Company is consistently ranked in the Black Enterprise list of America’s top 100 industrial/service companies, was named the Best-in-Class

Ozanne Construction Company, Inc., founded in 1956 in Cleveland, Ohio, is a multi-disciplinary construction management company doing business throughout the Midwestern and Southern United States. They have successfully worked for some of our nation’s most respected and demanding owners, including NASA Glenn Research Center, the Federal Bureau of Prisons, the United States Department of Justice, and the United States Post Office. Ozanne Construction Company, Inc.’s mission is to provide clients with the highest quality construction services at competitive prices. Ozanne Construction implements this mission by maintaining a talented, diverse, ethical, and dedicated professional staff that strives for excellence.

Throughout the 1950s and 1960s, Ozanne took on more work, including renovations of Greater Abyssinia Baptist Church, the Sir-Rah House, St. Andrews Episcopal Church, Quincy Savings and Loan, and another significant commercial project, a bank branch office for Cleveland Trust Company at E. 60th Street and St. Clair Avenue. He also completed work for the City of Cleveland and the Cleveland Municipal School District. With the onset of urban renewal and the efforts to improve Cleveland’s inner city, Ozanne Construction Company was hired by several neighborhood non-profit groups to construct new housing in Cleveland’s the Midwestern and Southern United States. They have successfully worked for some of our nation’s most respected and demanding owners, including NASA Glenn Research Center, the Federal Bureau of Prisons, the United States Department of Justice, and the United States Post Office.

Hough neighborhood. As his reputation as a general contractor grew, he was invited to join the Associated General Contractors of America, becoming the first African American member in Cleveland and one of the first African-Americans in the nation to join the construction trade association. He and Betty were also very active in the Catholic Interracial Council of Cleveland, an organization dedicated to improving race relations in Cleveland’s Catholic Diocese.

Ozanne averages over $70 million in work and over $100 million as an agency construction and program manager. Ozanne has a business very talented and diverse professional staff with over 20 LEED-accredited and Green Associate construction professionals. We have successfully worked for some of our nation’s most respected and demanding owners, including the United States Department of Justice, Federal Bureau of Prisons, United States Air Force Construction Management Division, Army Corps of Engineers, United States Post Office, NASA Glenn Research Center, and the General Services Administration.

Ozanne is married to Gaile Cooper Ozanne, and they have four children.