Dr. H. Andrew Ward attended Brescia University and graduated with a Bachelors of Science degree in Mathematics in 1962. Upon graduation he entered the officer training program for the United States Air Force. After severing his active duty, he returned to Owensboro where he obtained a teaching position at Foust Junior High and later at Thomas Jefferson High School in Louisville, KY. He enrolled in the Indiana University College of Optometry in 1970 and graduated 1973. He then returned to his home town of Owensboro where he started his family optometry practice with his wife Jeannette. Additionally, he joined the United States Air Force Reserves where he served as Liaison Officer to the United States Air Force Academy and Air Force ROTC. He proudly served in this capacity until his retirement from the Air Force Reserves with the rank of Lieutenant Colonel. He was awarded the Kentucky Optometric Association’s ‘Clifford C. Leddingham Optometrist of the Year’ in 2006. He serves as the vice-president for VOSH-KY and has been on more than twenty international mission trips since his first trip to Jamaica in 1990. He is a member of the American Optometric Association and the Kentucky Optometric Association. He has been married to his wife Jeannette for over 40 years and together they have four children.

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