About

Tim is a graduate of Rutgers University and Georgetown University Law Center. He's still licensed as an attorney-at-law, in New Jersey, and for many years taught honors seminars at Rutgers on topics of legal and political philosophy, justice, and globalization. He also practiced dispute resolution as a family and commercial mediator.

He has extensive experience in forming and managing entrepreneurial companies in diverse fields including the manufacture of engineering and surveying instrumentation, development and production of state-of-the-art graphics computers, and technical book publishing. His business career has equipped him to understand and appreciate both the perils and potential of small business, and the constant struggle “Main Street” has competing with the special interests of “Wall Street.”

For the past nine years he has worked in the field of biological research, providing expertise in sales management, marketing, manufacturing processes, research and development. His scientific work in the areas of obesity, diabetes, metabolic syndrome, and nutrition has been presented in poster sessions at various scientific meetings and is the subject of upcoming journal articles.

He started in politics at the age of 13, registering voters in suburban New Jersey. Elected in the Democratic primary as the youngest ever member of a county political committee in New Jersey at 16, he went on to serve as a municipal chairman and county vice-chairman at 19, and was elected to his local government at the age of 22, the only Democrat in a staunchly Republican town. He managed campaigns for county, state, and federal offices while in high school and college, and when he returned to New Jersey after completing law school.

Tim and his wife Johanna, a former social worker, live in Ocala and are members of the Blessed Trinity Catholic Church. He has served in his various parishes as a lector, Eucharistic minister, and volunteer religious education teacher, and was active in Catholic campus ministry while at both Rutgers and Georgetown. Tim and Johanna met as teenagers in 4-H during high school and still continue to be avid hikers and campers, enjoying most outdoor activities. They have two sons. Their older son, Adam, is a nuclear physicist working as a medical researcher at the University of California San Francisco; he and his wife, a registered nurse, live in Palo Alto. Their younger son, Jesse, is a doctoral student in economics at Stanford University. Johanna's 94-year-old father also lives in Ocala.