Donald J. Devine, Ph.D.

Donald Devine is a vice chairman of the American Conservative Union and the editor of Conservative Battleline, a publication of the American Conservative Union Foundation. Devine has served as a member on the Board of Directors of both organizations for more than 20 years.

Devine is the former director of the U.S. Office of Personnel Management and is currently the Grewcock Professor of American Values at Bellevue University. He is also a columnist, a writer, an adjunct scholar at the Heritage Foundation, and a political and management consultant.

Devine served as deputy director of political planning and as a regional director for Ronald Reagan’s presidential campaign. During President Reagan’s first term, Devine was appointed as chief advisor on federal personnel, a position in which he successfully saved $6 billion by cutting more than 100,000 bureaucratic slots. He was also a senior political consultant for presidential campaigns of Bob Dole and Steve Forbes, and has been a consultant for Republican committees and numerous GOP campaigns.

For 14 years, he was associate professor of government and politics at the University of Maryland, specializing in democratic theory and public opinion. Devine is the author of seven books: Reagan's Terrible Swift Sword, Reagan Electionomics, The Attentive Public, The Political Culture of the United States, Does Freedom Work?, Restoring the Tenth Amendment, and In Defense of the West: American Values under Siege.

He was the Republican nominee for Congress in Maryland's 5th District in 1994 and for Maryland State Comptroller in 1978.

Devine currently resides in Shady Side, Maryland, with his wife, Ann. He is the father of four and the grandfather of 11.