Bob Barr represented the 7th District of Georgia in the U. S. House of Representatives from 1995 to 2003. He now practices law in Atlanta, Georgia, where he is a member of the Georgia Judicial Qualifications Commission, and chairs Liberty Guard, Inc. a non-profit and non-partisan organization dedicated to protecting individual liberty.
Bob is a former president of the National Rifle Association of America (NRA), and currently serves on the Association’s Executive Council.
In addition to these responsibilities, Bob is Chairman of the Board of Directors for the Interactive College of Technology headquartered in Atlanta.
Bob has taught constitutional law and, from 2003 to 2008, occupied the 21st Century Liberties Chair for Freedom and Privacy at the American Conservative Union. He served as a member of The Constitution Project’s Initiative on Liberty and Security, and from 2003 to 2005 was a member of a project at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government addressing matters of privacy and security. He was the Libertarian Party nominee for President in 2008.
From 1971 to 1978 Bob was an official with the CIA, and in 1986 President Ronald Reagan appointed him as the United States Attorney for the Northern District of Georgia, a post for which he was confirmed by the United States Senate and in which he served until 1990. Following his tenure as U.S. Attorney, Bob served as President of Southeastern Legal Foundation from 1990-91. Additionally, he has served as a member of the U.S. delegations at several United Nations conferences on firearms and continues to be active in protecting firearms rights domestically and internationally.
Bob has appeared on virtually every major cable and network television program dealing with public policy matters. He has written regularly for Townhall.com, The Daily Caller, and The Marietta Daily Journal, and has been a columnist and blogger for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Hewrites occasional pieces for other publications and is the author of three books: “The Meaning of Is: The Squandered Impeachment and Wasted Legacy of William Jefferson Clinton,” “Patriot Nation: Bob Barr’s Laws of the Universe Volume One,” and “Lessons in Liberty.”
Bob Barr was awarded his law degree from Georgetown University, his master’s degree from The George Washington University, and his bachelor’s degree from the University of Southern California, where he joined Tau Kappa Epsilon Fraternity. He and his wife Jeri live in Smyrna, Georgia just outside Atlanta.
