PLP 2010 Profile: Sam Towell
Jul 29 2010 - 11:09am
Name: Samuel "Sam" Thurston Towell
Age: 33
Born: Richmond
Current Digs: Richmond
Occupation: Attorney
Favorite part about the job? I like that each case brings its own puzzles.
Your first job ever? In 8th grade I was a Page for Sen. Benedetti in the Senate of Virginia.
Favorite book? Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson
Favorite part about the job? I like that each case brings its own puzzles.
Your first job ever? In 8th grade I was a Page for Sen. Benedetti in the Senate of Virginia.
Favorite book? Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson
Favorite movie? Dead Poets Society
Comfort food? Pizza bagels
What's in your car CD player right now? If I am not listening to National Public Radio, I'm playing the most recent compendium of the previous year's music as compiled by Steven P. Gould.
Next journey? I am spending the summer in Wichita, Kansas working in-house for a client.
Favorite Virginia vacation spot? I love spending a couple days every year at Virginia Beach.
First political memory? My school's mock presidential election of 1984.
Whom do you admire and why? J. Sargeant Reynolds for using the privileges he was born with to advance the cause of the less fortunate in the political arena.
Best advice you ever got? Don't wish the present away waiting to get to the future (from my father).
If you could have dinner with any one currently living, whom would it be and why? Former Justice John Paul Stevens. He spent over thirty years at the top of his branch of government and witnessed sweeping social and political changes.
Describe a perfect day. Shooting the breeze with my friends about politics on my deck with a couple bottles of wine.
One thing most people might be surprised to learn about you? I was a decathlete in college.
Ambition, political or otherwise? To work at the intersection of law and government in the Office of the Attorney General, the Governor's Office, or on the bench.
What's in your car CD player right now? If I am not listening to National Public Radio, I'm playing the most recent compendium of the previous year's music as compiled by Steven P. Gould.
Next journey? I am spending the summer in Wichita, Kansas working in-house for a client.
Favorite Virginia vacation spot? I love spending a couple days every year at Virginia Beach.
First political memory? My school's mock presidential election of 1984.
Whom do you admire and why? J. Sargeant Reynolds for using the privileges he was born with to advance the cause of the less fortunate in the political arena.
Best advice you ever got? Don't wish the present away waiting to get to the future (from my father).
If you could have dinner with any one currently living, whom would it be and why? Former Justice John Paul Stevens. He spent over thirty years at the top of his branch of government and witnessed sweeping social and political changes.
Describe a perfect day. Shooting the breeze with my friends about politics on my deck with a couple bottles of wine.
One thing most people might be surprised to learn about you? I was a decathlete in college.
Ambition, political or otherwise? To work at the intersection of law and government in the Office of the Attorney General, the Governor's Office, or on the bench.
