Donald E. Pont was born in Fairbury, Nebraska, in 1944. He is a graduate of the University of Nebraska in Lincoln and the University of Nebraska College of Medicine in Omaha. After serving as a flight medical officer in the U.S. Air Force, he completed a residency in Family Medicine at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis. Don is a retired family medicine and hospice physician who resides in Mesa, Arizona, with his wife, Jacquelyn.
