Tom Rost lives in Topeka, Kansas and Morro Bay, California. He is married and they have five children, nine grandchildren and two great grandchildren. He is a retired United States Marine, retired trial lawyer of 40 years in the courtroom. He is not an engineer but owned one third of a civil engineering firm operating from Fairfield, California to Frankfort, Kentucky and he is not a musician but owned part of a music company that provided live music in hotel lounges throughout the lower 48 states. Tom continues to be actively involved in a farming operation he owns for over 70 years.