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Paul Ashley Walden was born in Hollywood, Florida, to Clarke Walden and Minnie Louise Tubbs. He has a Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration from Emory University and a Master’s Degree in Real Estate from Georgia State University. He also completed the Office of Personnel Management training, “Leadership for a Democratic Society” at the Federal Executive Institute, which is provided to leaders in the Federal workforce. Mr. Walden has 37 years in Federal agency leadership, including serving as the Senior Real Property Officer for the U.S. Department of Agriculture and formerly on the board of the Federal Real Property Association. Currently he is the Executive Director of the Public Buildings Reform Board, an independent Board established by special legislation to improve asset management for the Federal government.  

 

Society Memberships   

  • Order of the First Families of Maryland (Governor General, 2024-26) 

  • Sons and Daughters of Virginia Founding Fathers (Governor General, 2023-25) 

  • National Society Sons and Daughters of the Pilgrims (Virginia Branch President, 2013-15; Captain General 2023-25) 

  • Delmarva First Families (President) 

  • General Society of the War of 1812 (Vice President General-Publications, 2023-2026) 

  • National Guild of Saint Margaret of Scotland (Historian, 2025-26) 

  • National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution (President, George Washington Chapter, VA Society, 2017) 

  • National Society Sons and Daughters of Antebellum Planters 1607-1861 (Secretary General, 2025-26) 

  • Order of the House of Wessex (1st VP General, 2020-22; Chaplain, 2025-26) 

  • Order of the Kings and Queens in the Holy Lands (3rd Lt Governor General, 2024-26) 

  • Order of the Steel Magnolias (Historian, 2024-26) 

  • Baronial Order of Magna Charta  

  • Descendants of Continental Colonial Officers   

  • Descendants of Early Postmasters 1607-1900  

  • Descendants of Sheriffs and Constables of Colonial and Antebellum America 

  • Descendants of the Knights of the Bath  

  • First Families of Georgia 1733-1797  

  • General Society Sons of the Revolution  

  • Hereditary Order Descendants Loyalists & Patriots American Revolution 

  • Huguenot Society of South Carolina  

  • Legion of Vikings and Valkyries  

  • Military Order of the Stars and Bars  

  • Order of Alba  

  • Order of Americans of Armorial Ancestry  

  • Order of First Families of North Carolina  

  • Order of Indian Wars of the United States  

  • Order of the Crown of Charlemagne in the United States of America  

  • Order of the Descendants of El Cid  

  • Order of the Founders of North America 1492-1692  

  • Order of the Merovingian Dynasty  

  • Order of the Norman Conquest  

  • Presidential Families of America  

  • Society of Descendants of Lady Godiva  

  • Society of the Order of the Southern Cross  

  • Sons and Daughters of the Colonial and Antebellum Bench and Bar 1565-1861  

  • The IX   

  • National Gavel Society

 

 Other Notes  

Walden is a member of the Sons of the American Legion, Urban Land Institute, and Pohick Episcopal Church, Lorton, VA (parish church of George Washington and George Mason). He is also a volunteer at Sunrise at Mount Vernon Assisted Living, where he serves as a lay reader at Sunday services and patriotic events at this facility.  His interests include American history, cooking, hiking in the beautiful mountains of Virginia, and spending time with his family.  Through his activities with the Sons of the American Revolution and Society of the War of 1812, he has pursued the identification and marking of patriot graves throughout the South to ensure their contributions are preserved.  He is also working on a published history of his family who were early settlers of Maryland in the 17th Century.   

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