Members & Bios

My wife Sue and I moved to Tellico Village from Santa Rosa in Northern California last year. We now live in our recently finished home in the village and are enjoying the wonderful East Tennessee lifestyle in our retirement years. I have always been interested in the links between our political process and that of public interest. I see my role as being to keep our Tellico Village updated on the various political issues that are occurring outside of the village and how they might affect our community.

I served in the British Army as a musician for several years. During that service, I was very lucky to have traveled to many different countries around the world. Upon completion of my military service, I obtained graduate degrees in Statistics and International Economics. After a short experience in teaching, I moved into Law Enforcement for The State of California and was involved in staff administration and Government Liaison, I retired after 26 years. Sue retired from a career as an Event Planner for a Medical Device manufacturer and hospital administration.

We both enjoy the wonderful outdoor and active lifestyle that our beautiful surroundings in Eastern Tennessee provide. We are both golfers and members of the Dragon Boat racing group.

I look forward to serving on the committee to ensure our little bit of paradise that we have here in Tellico Village always stays that way.

Linda, my fiancé, and I moved to our new home in Tellico Village in June of 2022. We fled the Boston, Massachusetts area following my retirement as an anesthesiologist with the Beth Israel Lahey Health Medical Center (formerly, The Lahey Clinic), where I had worked for over 20 years following discharge from the Medical Corps of the U.S. Army. Linda was, and still is, an elementary school reading specialist, currently working part–time with the Loudon County school system and the Lenoir City Boys and Girls Club as a tutor. We grew up in adjacent towns north of Boston. Following high school, I graduated from Fairfield University in southwestern Connecticut and worked with chronic schizophrenics in the community in the city of Bridgeport, Connecticut. I pursued additional education by attending the Georgetown University School of Medicine, receiving a Master of Science degree in Physiology. I was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant in the U.S. Army upon acceptance into the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (U.S.U.H.S.) and graduated with an M.D. degree in 1986. During my first year of medical school, I earned a slot at the U.S. Army Airborne School at Fort Benning, Georgia and I was awarded the Parachutist Badge. I completed an internship, residency in anesthesiology, and fellowship at Walter Reed Army Medical Center and achieved Board Certification in anesthesiology in 1990. I was transferred overseas and spent three years at Landstuhl Army Medical Center in Landstuhl Germany with a tour at a Combat Support Hospital in support of our forces in Bosnia. Following my tour in Germany, I returned to the U.S. and served on the faculty of U.S.U.H.S. in the Anesthesiology Department and as a member of the Faculty Senate for three years before leaving Active Duty and finally returning to Massachusetts. After a few months as an anesthesiologist at The Lahey Clinic (near Boston), I entered the U.S. Army Reserves on 20 September 2001. As a member of the U.S. Army Reserves, I had two mobilizations to backfill for deployed Active Duty anesthesiologists from U.S. Medical Centers. I retired from the Reserves after eight years in 2009 with the rank of Colonel and served at Lahey as the Director of Neuroanesthesiology and an Assistant Director of the Anesthesiology Residency Program. My last day of work at the Beth Israel Lahey Health Medical Center was 13 June 2022. Since living in Tellico Village, I have had a crash course in the functions of local government and local politics, and I look forward to serving my fellow residents of Tellico Village on the Government Affairs Committee.