Charles Robb Charles S. Robb joined the faculty of George Mason University as a Distinguished Professor of Law and Public Policy in 2001. Previously he served as Lt. Governor of Virginia from 1978 to 1982, as Virginia's 64th Governor from 1982 to 1986, and as a United States Senator from 1989 to 2001. During his tenure in the Senate he became the only member of Congress ever to serve simultaneously on all three national security committees (Intelligence, Armed Services, and Foreign Relations). He also served on the Finance, Commerce, and Budget Committees, as well as the Select Committee on POW/MIA Affairs. In February 2004, President George W. Bush appointed him as Co-Chairman (with Senior Judge Laurence Silberman of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit) of the Commission on Intelligence Capabilities of the United States Regarding Weapons of Mass Destruction. During that same month he stepped down as Chairman of the Board of Visitors at the United States Naval Academy and completed his Co-Chairmanship (with Former Governor Linwood Holton) of a major landowner's alliance that created a special tax district to finance the extension of Metrorail to Tyson's Corner, Reston and Dulles Airport. He is also writing a memoir and serves on the boards of several technology-based corporations and national security-related organizations. During 2002, he was a Fellow at the Institute of Politics at Harvard and during 2004 he was a Fellow at the Marshall Wythe School of Law at William & Mary. Senator Robb received his law degree from the University of Virginia in 1973.