Thomas B. Reston

Thomas B. Reston has spent a lifetime in politics, working in eight presidential campaigns at the national level and countless local and statewide efforts.  He was twice elected the Secretary of the Democratic Party of Virginia.   Reston was a political appointee in the Foreign Service under President Jimmy Carter, serving as Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs.  A civil rights advocate, he was twice Board Chair of the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF).