Freddie Scott, Sr. has a varied career that spans more than forty years of team building and professional services marketing encompassing education, health, technology, and entrepreneurship consulting. From 1974 through 1984, Freddie was a wide receiver in the National Football League (NFL) for the Baltimore Colts and the Detroit Lions. He ended his professional football career with the United States Football League’s (USFL) Los Angeles Express under quarterback Steve Young. Immediately following football, Freddie served as a science teacher in both middle and high school for 3 years in Dade County Public Schools (Fl). Freddie has served in numerous capacities including business development consulting, Board Policy & Governance and executive/leadership coaching and has founded companies that provide appropriate consulting services to positively impact business growth in the education, technology, and health-care industries. He is President and CEO of EmMar LLC, and an operating partner of Giving Back Enterprises LLC based out of Detroit, MI, and an author and instructor in a School of Entrepreneurship and Business.
Born in Grady, Arkansas, Freddie graduated valedictorian from Southeast High School in Pine Bluff, Arkansas in 1970 and was named the 1970 Outstanding Teenager of Arkansas by the Outstanding Americans Foundation receiving the trophy from the late Governor Winthrop Rockefeller. He graduated with a Bachelor of Arts cum laude degree in 1974 from Amherst College (Amherst, MA) with a major in Black Studies and minor in Pre-Medicine. He continued his pursuit of medicine by completing one year of work towards a Doctor of Medicine degree (MD) at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, (MD) and The University of Michigan School of Medicine, Ann Arbor, Michigan. In 1995, he graduated with honors from the Word of Faith International Christian Center School of Ministry.
Freddie was enshrined in the National Football Foundation College Football Hall of Fame in South Bend, Indiana in 2001. He has served the community in myriad ways, including spokesperson for state-wide health initiatives, 100 Black Men of Greater Detroit, Michigan, former officer and board member of Bradford Academy (MI) and Little Rock Preparatory Academy (AR); Board Vice-Chair and Treasurer of the Boys and Girls Club of Jacksonville (AR), and the President-elect of the Arkansas Area Council of Boys and Girls Clubs. In 2001 he was diagnosed with prostate cancer and is now cancer-free and attributes survival to his belief in God, prayers, early detection, a quality team of health professionals, support from family and friends and a zeal for knowledge to communicate prostate cancer awareness.
In July, 2016 Freddie was appointed by the Commissioner of Education to the Little Rock School District Community Advisory Board and served until November 2016 when he accepted a current position as Operations Manager for the Arkansas Department of Education Division of Elementary and Secondary Education Family and Community Engagement Unit. Today, he is committed to a concerted effort to spread the Word of God as he operates in his divine calling of Pastor, Teacher and Helps Ministry as an Associate Minister at St. John Missionary Baptist Church, Little Rock, AR. In 2021 Freddie co-chaired a Pine Bluff Community Engagement in Education Think Tank alongside Ret. Col, Nathaniel Todd and continues to lead the effort of collaboration with community leadership to identify community SMART goals to the benefit of Jefferson County, Pine Bluff and other communities throughout the state of Arkansas. Freddie more recently served as an appointed member of the Pine Bluff School District Community Advisory Committee.
In April, 2023 Freddie was inducted into the 2023 class of the Arkansas Sports Hall of Fame.