Jean Gruss

Jean Gruss is the principal of Gruss Communications LLC, a corporate communications firm based in South Florida. Prior to starting the firm in 2016, Jean was a business journalist for 25 years. He has written about commercial real estate and economic development for the Tampa Tribune and personal finance for Kiplinger Washington Editors. Most recently, Jean was an editor with the Business Observer, a regional weekly business newspaper in Southwest Florida. He has earned awards from the Florida Press Association and Florida TaxWatch for business writing.

Jean has served on the boards of the CFA Society Naples, the Real Estate Investment Society, the Sanibel School Fund, and the Stuttering Foundation. He launched the Southwest Florida chapter of Medals4Mettle.

His interests include running and racing on the roads and trails of South Florida and scuba diving. He has completed more than 200 dives and is a PADI-certified advanced open water diver. Jean’s favorite dive sites are Pompano Beach and Key Largo.

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Frank Wolf

This Virginian congressman has served in the U.S. House of Representatives since 1981. The longtime supporter of the Stuttering Foundation drew national attention to childhood stuttering in 2006 when he submitted an article about Tiger Woods from the SFA newsletter to the Congressional Record. The congressman is featured in the Stuttering Foundation's Famous People Who Stutter brochure.

John Melendez

He is a talented musician, actor, and comedian. Listen to a podcast.

Winston Churchill

Seeking to "remove Winston Churchill's stutter by second guessing the diagnosis" indicates neither a truthful retelling of history nor an informed opinion about a complex speech disorder, say experts in the field of speech-language pathology.

Recent news reports that quote Dr. John Mather, a Washington physician, as saying that Churchill's stutter "is a lie" brought adamant critical response from specialists in the field of stuttering and fluency disorders.

Kenyon Martin

Kenyon Martin, the basketball sensation who was named to the NBA’s All Star Team in 2004, joins other famous people who stutter in a new brochure. The brochure - which unfolds into a small poster - is available free of charge from The Stuttering Foundation.

The poster is intended to give children and adults who stutter inspiration as they grapple with their speech disorder.

Ken Venturi

As much of the nation watches the U.S. Open Golf Championship, it is impossible not to think about our late friend Ken Venturi. Ken overcame many challenges to win the Open at Congressional in 1964 and go on to become the voice of golf for more than three decades.

However, Ken faced no bigger obstacle than stuttering. Ken Venturi was a champion to those who stutter, going out of his way to share his personal experience when consulted by a colleague, friend, or child who stutters.