Ferris Chandler is a retired Vice President of Domestic Operations of Cooper Tool, a Fortune 500 industrial firm and division of Cooper Industries. In this position, he was responsible for the operation of nine manufacturing facilities and managed over 5000 employees. Cooper products include brand names such as Lufkin, Crescent, Weller, Nicholson, Wiss, and Plumb.

Previous experience included Production Manager at Cooper-Bessemer and also Rem-Cru Titanium, a consortium of Remington Arms and Crucible Steel. He received a BS from Carnegie Mellon University in 1950.

Since retirement he has worked as a Management Consultant and, with his wife, has founded a Learning Center to help students in public schools.

His interests include writing essays, throwing and glazing pottery, designing houses, woodworking, and politics. He and his wife, Mary Jane, live near Raleigh in a house they designed and built in 1972. They have two daughters.