Just completed 14 years of service to the Commonwealth of Virginia as a board member of the Virginia Economic Development Partnership and then as a member of the Virginia Advisory Committee on International Trade (VEDP). Below is an announcement of my first appointment in 2009 by Governor Kaine. Was sworn in by my former George Mason University law student, Judge Joanathan Thatcher of the Fairfax Circuit Court. Of course, with me are my two kids (now lawyers with the U.S. Justice Dept. and the U.S. Dept. of Education) and my wife.