Tom is the founder and President of Edgemoor and is chair of the firm’s Investment Selection Committee. Tom provides asset allocation advice, is the principal portfolio manager for Edgemoor, and is the investment manager of Edgemoor's equity mutual fund.

Before establishing the firm in 1999, Tom was president of the Washington law firm Sherman, Meehan, Curtin & Ain, P.C., which he co-founded in 1968, and served as portfolio manager for the firm’s retirement plan.

Tom holds a BA from Middlebury College and an LLB with Honors from Duke University Law School, where he served on the Duke Law Journal and was elected to the Order of the Coif. After graduating from Duke, Tom was a Ford Foundation Prettyman Fellow at Georgetown University Law Center.