"He is someone who can see the big picture of any situation yet grasp the fine point of the details," R. William Murray said of Mr. Parsons.
"I've always been in a hurry," Mr. Parsons once told the New York Times of his career plans. "I've just never been certain exactly where I'm heading to."
Parsons charted an impressive trajectory from his middle-class childhood in Queens to the top of his law school class in Albany, N.Y., to his place as one of the few African Americans in the highest echelons of U.S. business.
As a 29-year-old Black lawyer working with upper-crust, mainly White clients, he later told the New York Times, he was initially treated as a curiosity or overlooked entirely.
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