Tom Fields was born and raised in the rural North Louisiana town of Farmeville. He graduated from Farmerville High School in 1969. At the age of sixteen he became one of the youngest committee clerks in the Louisiana House of Representatives. Following one year of college he left school and joined the United States Navy. In 1972 he made a tour of Viet Nam on board the USS Saratoga. He completed his Navy enlistment in the Navy Seabees. In 1975 Fields entered Northeast Louisiana University and majored in Construction Management. While in college he attended the Louisiana Military Academy and received a commission in the U.S. Army Reserves. He was also inducted into Who’s Who in American Colleges and Universities. Following graduation from NLU Fields took a management training job with the oil giant ARAMCO in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia. He stayed in Arabia for sixteen years where he worked as a project engineer. During Desert Storm Fields volunteered to go to the Kuwaiti border to provide support for the coalition forces. In addition to his project management work he also spent time exploring the fossil beds and deserts of Arabia. He was also the catcher for the thirteen time mid-east softball powerhouse, the Dhahran Clippers. Fields currently works for the communications company, CenturyLink where he is a Corporate Project Manager. He also has a column in the Farmerville Gazette and a blog site, thelouisianaexplorer@wordpress.com. Fields has authored two books, "I Called Him Grand Dad. The Lost Polital Papers of Harvey G. Fields" and "Desert Burning. The Story of the Civilians During Operation Desert Storm".Tom is a PMP and is Six Sigma Certified. He is married and has three children. He still lives in Farmerville.