Thomas E. Graves

District: 7

Counties: Culpeper, Fairfax, Fauquier, King George, Madison, Orange, Prince William, Spotsylvania and Stafford

Orange County beef producer Thomas E. Graves of Orange was elected to the Virginia Farm Bureau Federation board of directors in December 2008.

Graves is vice chair of the VFBF Natural and Environmental Resources & Forestry Advisory Committee and Land Use Advisory Committee.

He and his family operate a 1,500-acre beef cattle farm.
Graves has served on the Orange County Farm Bureau board of directors for 20 years. He is chairman of that organization’s events committee and has served as president twice.

He served on the Virginia AgPAC board of trustees for five years, serving on the executive committee his final two years. He served four years on the American Farm Bureau Federation Forestry Advisory Committee. He worked with AFBF and VFBF to hold the first Farm Bureau-sponsored campaign school for citizens running for public office in Virginia.

Graves served four years on the Orange County Board of Supervisors and has served on various other boards, including those of the Orange County Nursing Home Commission, the Dogwood Village Foundation and the Orange County Fair.

He and his wife, Jenny, have two grown children. He attends Macedonia Christian Church.