Chuck DeVore

Since 2011, Chuck DeVore has been with the Texas Public Policy Foundation, and is its Vice President of National Initiatives. Chuck is a retired lieutenant colonel (military intelligence) in the U.S. Army. From 2004 to 2010, Chuck DeVore represented almost 500,000 people in the California State Assembly in coastal Orange County. He was the Vice Chairman of the Assembly Committee on Revenue and Taxation and served on the Budget Committee as well. In 2010, Chuck competed for the Republican nomination for U.S. Senate in California, earning more than 450,000 votes and raising more than $2.6 million. Chuck worked in the aerospace industry for 13 years as an executive where he worked on missile defense, communications, intelligence, sensor, and space programs until his election to the California State Assembly in 2004. Chuck served as a Reagan White House appointee in the Pentagon from 1986 to 1988 where he was a Special Assistant for Foreign Affairs and, for a time, the youngest Reagan appointee in the Pentagon. He later served on staff of a U.S. Congressman. Chuck is the author of two books, "China Attacks," a techno-thriller novel, and "The Texas Model: Prosperity in the Lone Star State and Lessons for America." Chuck has been married since 1988 to Diane. They have two daughters.