Representative Tom Rice

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Chairman Tom Rice was first elected to the Georgia House of Representatives in 1996 and began serving in 1997. Representative Rice entered the legislature as his third career, having already worked as a marketing executive for IBM for 30 years and later being self employed. As an original native to the suburbs of Philadelphia, the future legislator moved to Atlanta in 1984. He attended Temple University, where he was an accounting major and participated in several of the University’s sports programs. His personal claim to fame is having played on the school’s football team with famed actor and comedian Bill Cosby!

Representative Rice was recently appointed Chairman of the Motor Vehicles Committee for the 2005-2006 Session of the Georgia Legislature. The Chairman has worked very hard authoring legislation that would make Georgia Driver’s License eligibility stricter, thereby improving road safety. He is also a member of the Rules, Ways and Means and State Institutions and Property Committees.

Representative Rice and his wife are the proud parents of four children and nine grandchildren. Frances Rice is an interior decorator as well as a skilled porcelain artist. Both she and the Representative appear as guest speakers occasionally for the Christian Women’s Club. Aside from that, he is also a deacon at the Peachtree Corners Baptist Church, as well serving on the Advisory Boards of the Gwinnett Philharmonic and the Life South Community Blood Bank. He is the Head of the House Republican Policy Council and Captain of the Old Guard of the Gate City Guard, an Atlanta based military organization. The latter of the aforementioned can probably be most attributed to the 6 years that he spent as an Army Reservist.

Aside from the already very full and busy life Representative Rice leads, he is also very interested in Civil War History and reading the biographies of historical figures.