Warner, touted in 2006 as a presidential prospect, served as governor from 2002 to January 2006. His administration inherited $6 billion in budget shortfalls and ended with a surplus that allowed the largest single investment in K-12 education in Virginia history, a reinvestment in one of the nation’s premier public college and university systems and a record investment in cleanup of the nation’s largest estuary, the Chesapeake Bay.

During his tenure, Warner chaired the National Governors Association, leading a national high school reform effort to meet the challenges of a global economy. He was named among Governing Magazine’s “Public Officials of the Year” in 2004, TIME Magazine’s “America’s 5 Best Governors” in 2005 and Newsweek’s “Who’s Next” issue in 2006. In 2005, Virginia was ranked “the best managed state in the nation” by Governing Magazine and in August 2006 was the “runaway winner” in the new “Best State for Business” ranking done by Forbes, based on the tax structure, education system and bipartisan fiscal management the Warner administration had put in place.

Warner co-founded the company that became Nextel, as well as the largest technology-based venture capital fund in the mid-Atlantic. As a private citizen, he launched a health-care foundation that has helped provide coverage for 476,000 Virginians. He is a graduate of George Washington University and Harvard University Law School; he is married and the father of three daughters.

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