Lawrence di rita biography

Lawrence Thomas Di Rita is an American political advisor who served as an aide to United States Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld.

Di Rita was a U.S. naval officer, with various seagoing and shore-based assignments in the United States and Japan, where he and his family lived from 1981-1985.

Lawrence Thomas Di Rita (born March 12, 1958) is an American political advisor who served as an aide to United States Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld.

Larry Di Rita leads Bank of America's global public policy team, which includes federal, state, and international government relations.

Lawrence Di Rita works as a President, Greater, DC Market (Washington) at Bank of America, which is a Banking company with an estimated 212 K employees; and.

Lawrence Thomas Di Rita (born March 12, 1958) is an American political advisor who served as an aide to United States Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld.!

Lawrence Di Rita

American political aide (born 1958)

Lawrence Thomas Di Rita (born March 12, 1958)^[1] is an American political advisor who served as an aide to United States Secretary of DefenseDonald Rumsfeld.

He has also worked as a spokesman for Bank of America.

Early life and education

Born in Detroit, Michigan, Di Rita received a Bachelor of Science degree from the United States Naval Academy in 1980 and a Master of Arts degree from the Johns Hopkins UniversitySchool of Advanced International Studies in 1987.^[1]^[2]^[3]

Career

He served as a United States Navy officer until 1994, at which time Di Rita joined The Heritage Foundation as Deputy Director of Foreign Policy and Defense Studies.

Di Rita was policy director to the 1996 Presidential campaign of U.S. Senator Phil Gramm and Chief of Staff for U.S. Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison from 1996 until 2001.^[4]

Di Rita served as acting Assistant Secretary of Defense for