Linzey is licensed to practice as a CPA in Oklahoma, and is a Life Member of the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners. As a professional accountant and auditor, he has maintained a program of Continuing Professional Education in excess of 40 hours per year throughout his career. In addition to numerous tax, accounting and auditing, and management courses sponsored by professional associations and former employers, Linzey has also taught and attended a number of college courses as part of his post-graduate CPE program, including:

	Completion of the Professional Management Program at the University of Southern California in 1988
	Service as an Adjunct Accounting Professor at Oklahoma City University in 1983-85
	Completion of numerous courses in the MBA program at the F.E. Seidman Graduate School of Business, Grand Valley State University in 1974-76
	Completion of course work at Aquinas College in 1973

1970-72 Grand Valley State University

Received B.S. Degree in Economics and Business
Administration in September 1972

1967-70 U. S. Army

	Enlisted in May 1967. Received Honorable Discharge with rank of Staff Sergeant in May 1970. Service medals awarded: Army Commendation Medal National Defense Service Medal Vietnam Service Medal Republic of Vietnam Campaign Medal
	Served as Area Intelligence Specialist in Vietnam -- June 1968-69
	Attended Vietnamese Language School at Fort Bliss, Texas
	Attended Military Intelligence School at Fort Holabird, Maryland

1967

Attended Michigan State as an undergraduate majoring in Business Administration -- January-March 1967

1965-66

Appointed as Cadet, U.S. Coast Guard Academy in 1965

Attended Academy from July 1965 through September 1966

1952-65

	Graduated from Rogers High School, Wyoming, Michigan in June 1965
	Attended Wyoming Public Schools throughout grades K-12