Lester A. Rosen, CLU, began selling life insurance for the Union Central Life Insurance Company (now known as UNIFI Mutual Holding Company) on July 1, 1933 in Memphis, Tennessee, and didn't stop until he retired due to failing health in April 2006 - thus concluding an unparalleled 72-year career with the same company for which he also served as a member of the board of directors. A 71-year member of the Million Dollar Round Table, Mr. Rosen first qualified for membership in 1935. During his tenure, he attended 56 MDRT Annual Meetings and also served as national president as well as a Gold Knight of the MDRT Foundation.

While a student at the Wharton School of Finance and Commerce of the University of Pennsylvania, from which he graduated in 1933, it is reported that Mr. Rosen took all of the available insurance courses and decided to sit for the CLU examinations while the information was uppermost in his mind. In a 1993 interview with Life & Health Insurance Sales, Mr. Rosen is quoted as saying "I passed the exams in 1933 and had to wait for three years of life experience before I could get the designation in 1936." He was passionate about life insurance but in the same interview stated "I talked life before I talked life insurance."

Throughout his illustrious career, Mr. Rosen continued to be involved in the industry he loved by serving nationally as president of the Life Underwriter Training Council and the National Association of Insurance and Financial Advisors and as a member of the board of trustees of The American College. Locally, he served as president of the Memphis Estate Planning Council, an affiliated council of the NAEPC, the Memphis Association of Insurance and Financial Advisors, and the Memphis Chapter of the Society of Financial Service Professionals.

Mr. Rosen's accomplishments did not go unnoticed and he received many awards throughout his life, including the 1965 "Man of the Year" awarded by the Tennessee Association of Insurance and Financial Advisors, the 1975 John Newton Russell Award, the J.A. McDaniel Community Service Award for 1985 from the Memphis Urban League, and the 1987 Heubner Gold Medal Award from The American College.