Rader is a Tennessee native, born and raised in the Great Smoky Mountains and its foothills. His growing up adventures and early learning experiences were more than electric During his teen and college summers, he was a boxer, forester and firefighter in Yellowstone and the Great Smoky Mountain National Park; trapper, construction helper, family grocery store gopher and grocer delivery driver in a WW II Willy's Jeep. After earning BS and MS degrees from University of Tennessee in Communications, Business and Organizational Development, Rader entered and graduated from Naval OCS, spent four years active and twenty-three years in naval reserve and retirird with rank of Commander. Following active naval service, he experienced stints in fields of medical sales, insurance, and banking. All pointing to his career as business and training consultant to organizations retiring from the University of Tennessee staff after thirty consulting years. Concurrent with his consulting efforts, Rader was a restaurateur, small retail business owner in the Smoky Mtn area. Rader spends his post retirement as a real estate advisor with NAI Koella Moore Commercial Real Estate in the Great Smoky Mountain area: Sevierville, Pigeon Forge, and Gatlinburg. And continues to pursue his first love, writing An avid outdoorsman, Rader has fished, hunted, hiked, swam, and boated throughout the Great Smokies rivers, lakes and trails in Appalachian mountains. Living on a TVA lake, he and wife Jane have three married sons and six grandchildren . Their community and church are very important to them.
