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Although he recently retired officially in 2009, Murphy remains as an advisor to the Spanos Companies’ Board of Directors and works on special projects for the team. Murphy has been a highly-respected leader in the Spanos organization since 1982.

A retired captain in the U.S. Air Force, Murphy graduated with a degree in business from Bernard Baruch College in New York City in 1966. He is a member of the American Institute of CPAs and the California Society of CPAs, and worked from 1971-82 as a senior partner at Bowman and Company, a Stockton, California CPA firm.

Murphy was born in New York, N.Y. He, his wife, Sandra, and their son, Gregory, reside in Stockton. Daughter, Tara, resides in San Diego, as does daughter, Lisa Stevenson, her husband, Mark, and Murphy’s two granddaughters, Alisha and Morgan.