Timothy Christopher Finton is a true native of Washington, D.C. He is the son of Colonel James Robert Finton (USAF) and Iris Hammer Finton, and is married to Tonya Thomas Finton. The Fintons have two sons, Christopher James Grenfell Finton and Thomas William Goodwin Finton.
Tim was graduated summa cum laude from Ohio University with an A.B. in History. He received his M.A. with honours, in Jurisprudence, from the Queen’s College, University of Oxford; and his Juris Doctor at American University’s Washington College of Law.
Tim has enjoyed a 40-year career with the U.S. Department of State specializing in Internet policy and trade, and is a member of the Bar of the District of Columbia.
Society Memberships
Society of the Cincinnati in the State of Connecticut (Standing Committee, Assistant Treasurer)
Order of the Founders and Patriots of America (former Governor, District of Columbia Society)
Society of Colonial Wars (District of Columbia, Florida, Virginia, North Carolina societies current Vice-Chairman, Awards Committee for the General Society)
Society of Mayflower Descendants (former Governor, District of Columbia Society)
Jamestowne Society
American Descendants of the House of Burgesses 1619-1699
The Saint Nicholas Society of the City of New York
Saints Andrew's Society of Washington, DC
Sons of the Revolution, District of Columbia (former 1st Vice President, Virginia)
National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution
Society of the War of 1812 (former President, District of Columbia Society)
Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War
Descendants of the 154th New York Volunteer Infantry "Hardtack Regiment"
Order of Descendants of Colonial Cavaliers (Treasurer General)
Dutch Colonial Society (Honorary President General)
Huguenot Society of America
National Huguenot Society (District of Columbia societies - former 1st Vice President, Virginia)
National Society Americans of Royal Descent
Order of the Crown in America (Secretary General, Chaplain General)
One Hundred Living Descendants of Blood Royal
Ancient Heraldic and Chivalric Order of Albion
Order of the Crown of Charlemagne in the USA
Order of Alba
Order of Indian Wars of the United States
Hereditary Order of Descendants of Colonial Governors
National Gavel Society
The Pilgrim John Howland Society
Warren Cousins
The Denison Society
The Thomas Minor Society
The Wequetequock Burying Ground Association, Stonington, CTÂ
The Walter Palmer Society
The Avery Memorial Association
Order of Americans of Armorial Ancestry
Sons of Spanish American War Veterans
Society of the Descendants of the Colonial Clergy
Order of the First Families of Maine 1604-1652 (Honorary President General)
The Order of the First Families of Connecticut 1633-1662
The Order of the First Families of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations
Order of the First Families of New Hampshire 1622-1680
Piscataqua Pioneers
Descendants of Cape Cod and the Islands (Founding 1st Vice President General)
Order of First Families of North Carolina
The Order of the First Families of Maryland
Descendants of the Founders of New Jersey
First Families of Augusta County, Virginia
Military Order of the Stars and Bars
Descendants of Point Lookout Organization
Fort Delaware Society
National Society Descendants of Early Quakers
Deep River Friends Memorial Association, High Point, NC
Sons and Daughters of the Colonial and Antebellum Bench and Bar 1565-1861
Presidential Families of America
Society of Descendants of the Founders of the New Haven Colony
Winthrop Society
Guild of Colonial Artisans and Tradesmen 1607-1783 (Honorary President General)
National Society of Saints and Sinners
Order of Descendants of Colonial Physicians and Chirurgiens
Hereditary Order Descendants of Loyalists and Patriots of the American Revolution
Authorships
A Competitive Assessment of the U.S. Fiber Optics Industry
Chivalric Orders
The Most Venerable Order of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem