I am a 20 year military veteran and semi-retired lawyer. I currently work as a Document review attorney, which allows me a flexible schedule to support my wife’s career and our blended family of kids and dogs. My wife, Susan Beth Frommeyer, M.D., is a Board certified OB/GYN who is licensed in multiple states. We married in 2015 and I left Washington, D.C. to move to East Tennessee to be with her. Susan’s medical practice is in Pulaski Tennessee, where we moved in January 2024.

My career began in the military with eight years in the United States Navy, where I served as a Cryptologic Technician Interpretive (CTI). Well, basically, I was a Russian linguist. During my time in the Navy, I was an inspector and escort and Russian Language interpreter for the On-Site Inspection Agency (OSIA), which was the agency responsible for Nuclear, Biological, and Chemical Arms Control for the US Government. OSIA later became the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA). While I was at the OSIA, I served as mission coordinator and interpreter on task-organized inspection and escort teams for the Strategic-range Arms Reduction Treaty (START), Intermediate Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty, and Nuclear Testing Treaty as well as Humanitarian Aid missions.

After my time in the Navy, I used the GI Bill to go to law school. I have a J.D from Salmon P. Chase College of Law at Northern Kentucky University and an LL.M in International Economic Law from the University of Houston Law Center.

After law school and a year working as an attorney for the Social Security Administration, I was accepted as a member of the Judge Advocate General’s Corps in the United States Air Force. As a JAG in the Air Force, I worked as prosecutor, defense counsel, and in other attorney roles. I was stationed in or deployed to bases in Missouri, Florida, California, Japan, Iraq, Qatar, and Washington, D.C. I retired from the military after 20 years of total service in 2012.

After leaving the Air Force, I worked for 3 years at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB). At the CFPB, I was an Investigations Team Lead in the Consumer Response Division. My job, among other things, was to apply federal consumer financial protection laws to analyze and respond to complex consumer complaints, largely in the areas of mortgage servicing, credit reporting and debt collection.

In 2020, I ran for County Commission in Knox County, Tennessee and, unfortunately, lost.

In 2021, I was elected as Chair of the Hamblen County Democratic Party. I served for one term.

In 2022, I ran for Circuit Court Clerk in Hamblen County Tennessee and, unfortunately, lost.

To see a multimedia version of this career and family summary (which I posted back in January 2020), feel free to click on the link here.