A native of Visalia, CA, he earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in speech and drama in 1965 from Stanford, then served for five years in the U. S. Navy as a Supply Corps officer, stationed aboard the aircraft carrier USS Coral Sea in Vietnam from 1967-69. Discharged from the Navy as a Lieutenant in 1970, he then received an MBA from the Harvard Business School in 1972. He worked at Dairyman’s Cooperative Creamery Association until 1974, and then served until 1979 as vice president and general manager of System Integrators, Inc., a supplier of computerized text editing and typesetting systems to the newspaper industry.
As Senior Executive Vice President-Planning and Development with Pappas Telecasting Companies he was responsible for the planning and construction of WHNS TV, Greenville-Spartanburg-Asheville and for KPTM TV, Omaha. He became General Manager of KMPH TV, Fresno from 1987 to 1992, serving on the boards of directors of both the Association of Independent Television Stations, and the California Broadcasters Association. He retired from Pappas in 2008.
LeBon and his wife Mary Jane have two grown children. His hobbies include golf, home theatre, genealogy, and computers.
