Jim Driscoll was born in Detroit, Michigan, on May 10, 1942. He graduated from the University of Detroit in 1964 with a liberal arts degree, majoring in history and English. In late 1970, after a divorce earlier that year, he moved to Los Angeles, California, with his young son and raised him in Southern California. In June 2000, after thirty-five years of service, he retired from General Motors Acceptance Corporation, the automobile financial arm of General Motors. After retiring, he followed his son's family in his son's employment relocations to San Francisco, California, then Vancouver, British Columbia, and now resides in Vancouver, Washington, near the Oregon border, as his son and family now themselves reside in nearby West Linn, Oregon.
