[1] Ron Husband joined The Walt Disney Company in 1975 where his first project was assisting Frank Thomas and Ollie Johnston on The Rescuers.
[2] During production of The Fox and the Hound, Frank and Ollie retired (early 1978) and he was transferred to newly minted animator Randy Cartwright.
His most famous assignments while at Disney were with Russ Edmonds in The Rescuers Down Under, animating Gaston and Jafar with Andreas Deja in Beauty and the Beast and Aladdin and Pumbaa with Tony Bancroft and David Pruiksma in The Lion King and as supervising animator for Djali in The Hunchback of Notre Dame, the Elk in the Firebird Suite - 1919 Version Segment of Fantasia 2000 and Doctor Joshua Strongbear Sweet in Atlantis: The Lost Empire.
In 1991, he was honored as the recipient of the Centurion Award after addressing the National Religious Broadcasters Convention in Washington, D.C.[3] In the years of 1991 to 1996, Husband was a featured speaker at the Black Filmmakers Hall of Fame in Oakland, California.
Husband found role models in his own life because there was no positive African American character representation on television at the time for him to look up to.
After high school, he continued to take art classes at CA Citrus community college and University of Nevada[6] which he was able to attend on a sports scholarship.
He was welcomed into the Walt Disney company based on the potential they saw in his drawing sketchbooks and commercial art portfolio after he left them outside the front gate addressed to Eric Larson, head of recruitment training program at the time.