Lieutenant Colonel Charles S. Robb, USMC

Class of 1961

Lieutenant Colonel Robb was commissioned in 1961 and graduated first in his class at Quantico. He became a White House Honor Guard. It was there that he met and eventually married Lynda Johnson, the daughter of former U.S. President, Lyndon B. Johnson.

He went on to serve two tours of duty in Vietnam, where he led a rifle company in combat, and was awarded the Bronze Star. After the war he attended the University of Virginia Law School, and following a federal judicial clerkship, he entered private practice.

Following his move into private law, Lieutenant Colonel Robb won an election as a Democrat for the Lieutenant Governorship of Virginia. He served as Lieutenant Governor from 1978 to 1982. He was elected as the Virginia Governor in 1981 and served from 1982 to 1986.

He was elected to the U.S. Senate and served from 1989 until 2001. In 1992 he was the chairman of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee.

Following his Senatorial career, Lieutenant Colonel Robb served on the Board of Visitors at the U.S. Naval Academy and began teaching at George Mason University School of Law. He was appointed co-chair of the Iraq Intelligence Commission, and independent panel tasked with investigating U.S. intelligence surrounding the United States’ 2003 invasion of Iraq and Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction. In 2006 he was appointed to serve on the President’s Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board. He is also a former member of the Trilateral Commission.