Anthony J. Tata

Brigadier General Anthony J. Tata, U.S. Army (Retired) commanded combat units in the 82nd and 101st Airborne Divisions and the 10th Mountain Division. His last combat tour was in Afghanistan in 2007; he was Deputy Commanding General of the 30,000 strong combined and joint task force, where he earned the Combat Action Badge and Bronze Star Medal. General Tata is recognized as a national security expert and has been a frequent foreign policy guest commentator on Fox News, CBS News, One America News Network, and the Daily Buzz. NBC’s Today Show featured General Tata’s career transition from the military to education leadership, where he served as the Chief Operations Officer of Washington, D.C. Public Schools for firebrand Chancellor Michelle Rhee and was the Superintendent of the 16th largest school district in the nation in Wake County/Raleigh, NC. He most recently served as North Carolina’s Secretary of Transportation until August 2015.

General Tata now writes novels and has authored six critically acclaimed and bestselling novels, to include his most recent release by Kensington Books, “Three Minutes to Midnight”. He is also a partner in a commercial real estate and logistics enterprise in Wilmington, NC. He is a West Point Graduate with a Master of Arts and Sciences from the School of Advanced Military Studies, and a Fellowship at Harvard University’s JFK School of Government.