Thom Gray is a first-year law student at the University of Virginia School of Law and a 2007 graduate of the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, TN. He hails from Elizabethton, TN, in the northeast corner of the state.

Thom found libertarianism after a brief struggle with his personal belief in the sacredness of individual liberty and the anti-economic ideologies of the "campus left." He re-started the College Libertarians at UTK, though the organization has since become defunct, and has been involved with the Libertarian Party of Tennessee, the Knox County LP, and the Tri-Cities LP.

Thom's degree in Rhetoric and Writing makes him especially interested in the Libertarian Party's public image and how it uses (and more often misuses) verbal logic to sell the message of liberty to the public at large. In 2004, he authored a paper entitled "The Rhetoric of the Libertarian Party Platform," and in 2006, Platform Committee chairman George Squyres asked to use the paper for the committee's meeting at the 2006 LP Convention. Thom was unable to attend, but was glad to see that one of his key recommendations -- cutting the platform down to a manageable number of relevant planks -- found agreement (intentional or unintentional) among the LP's delegates.

Thom hopes to see the LP transition from a utopianist platform and literature to a concise and readable set of applicable policy ideas that the American people can relate to more readily. He supports the efforts of "real-world" libertarian and Libertarian organizations like the Republican and Democratic Liberty Caucuses, the LP Reform Caucus, and of course, the LFC.