★Graduate Putnam County High School, Class of 1953

★Graduate Emory University School of Business, Class of 1957, BBA Finance/Accounting

•        President, Emory Men’s Glee Club

•        President, Society for Advancement of Management

•        Member, Barkley Forum Debating Team

•        Member, Phi Delta Theta fraternity

★U S Air Force 1957-1962 (Active duty and active reserve/Called back to active duty w/Cuban Missile Crisis

★Formed Tom Thompson Co, Dairy Equipment, 1959

★Formed Tom Thompson Dairy, 1960

•        General Partner, Eatonton Dairy Farms, LLLP 1998-present

★Georgia Milk Producers, Board of Directors, 1965-2008

•        President, 1997-2008 (retired February 2008)

★Atlanta Dairies, Board of Directors 1968-1986.

•        Awarded Atlanta Business Chronicle’s “Best Divestiture of Year, 1986”

•        President, Atlanta Dairies’successor: Associated Dairy Farmers, 1986-1991

★Carolina-Virginia Milk Producers, Board of Directors, 1992-2001

★Maryland-Virginia Milk Producers, Board of Directors, 2002-2006

•        In top 20 corporations, Washington, DC area ($1 billion sales, 800 employees)

•        Chairman of Audit Committee

★National Milk Producers Federation, Washington, D.C., Board of Directors 1990-2006

•        One of two directors from the South

★Gatewood Schools, Founding Member Board of Directors

•        Treasurer 1970-1973

•        Chairman of Board, 1974-1985

★First Baptist Church, Eatonton

•        Former Chairman, Board of Deacons

•        Building Committee Chairman, rebuilding of church destroyed by arsonists, 1978

★Tri County Electric Member Cooperative, 16,000 + member/consumers

•        Board of Directors 1985-present

•            Chairman of Board, 1986-present

★Married to former Pamela MacLeod.  They have 7 grown children.