Gary Bruce Bettman is an American sports executive who serves as the commissioner of the National Hockey League, a post he has held since February 1, 1993. Previously, Bettman was a senior vice president and general counsel to the National Basketball Association.
Gary Bettman Father: Meet Howard Bettman
In a Jewish family, Gary Bettman was raised. His father, the patriarch of the family, went by the name of Howard Bettman. The identity of his mother is unknown.
Howard Bettman, his father, passed away in December 1965. Bettman was born to a Jewish family in Queens, New York. He studied industrial and labor relations at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, where he was a brother of the Alpha Epsilon Pi fraternity, and graduated in 1974.
After receiving a Juris Doctor degree from the New York University School of Law in 1977, Bettman joined the New York City law firm of Proskauer Rose Goetz & Mendelsohn.