Thomas A. Holton, Esq. Partner Porter Wright Morris & Arthur

Thomas Holton is the Secretary and a Trustee of the Thomas B. Fordham Institute and the Thomas B. Fordham Foundation. He is also a partner at the Porter, Wright, Morris & Arthur law firm and is chairman of the Business Law Department in their Dayton, Ohio offices. His areas of practice include general corporate law, business sales and acquisitions, labor negotiations, business and succession planning, and higher education law.

Mr. Holton currently serves as a trustee and chair of the PACE Board. He also serves as a member of the Chaminade-Julienne Development Advisory Council. He is a former member of the Board of Directors of The National City Bank of Dayton. He was involved as a member of the steering committee for the United Way Campaign from 1995 to 1996, and served as Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Kettering Medical Center Foundation.

A graduate of Ohio State University (B.S. 1964), Mr. Holton received his J.D. in 1967 from the University of Detroit School of Law. He resides in Dayton, Ohio.