Tom is on his fourth term on the Sauk County Board where he has served on the Finance Committee, the Public Health Committee, the Farmers and Conservation Together Committee (FACT), the Land Conservation Committee and Library Board. As a county board member, he strives to obtain value for the dollars that are spent.

As a citizen volunteer, he chaired the Greenfield Land Use Planning Committee, guiding the process of public meetings and hearings after which the township’s first land use plan was adopted by referendum in 1995. That land use plan’s major goals were reaffirmed in 2006 by the comprehensive planning effort in which he served on the steering committee. He recently proposed a public process at the county level to reduce the conflicts associated with quarries.

He is an Agricultural Economist at the University of Wisconsin Center For Diary Profitability where he conducts research and educational programs about economic competiveness of diary systems and deals with other farm and financial issues.

He grew up on a farm in Sauk County and served in the Army National Guard.