Spouse: Georjean Machulis
Children: Chad, Travis, 
Jessica (deceased)
Grandson: Waylon

• Gardening
• Carpentry
• Horseback riding
• Travel and language studies
• Reading
• Chess

• Director Vista Volunteer Program
  Dept of Community Affairs
  1977-1979
• Executive Director, AMO, Inc.1979-1984
• Sr. Manager for Community & Public Relations
  Public Employees Services Company
  Tallahassee, FL
  1985-1986
• President, Thaell & Associates
  Public Relations and Marketing
  Tallahassee, Florida
  1986 to Present.
• Executive Director
  Center for Independent Living of North Florida, Inc
  Tallahassee, FL
  1987-1988

• Life Member, NAACP
• Council of Neighborhood Associations, Former President
• Millennium Project 2000, President
• Medically Indigent Task Force, Former Chair
• Optimist Club of Tallahassee, Member
• Domestic Violence Task Force, Former Chair

University of South Florida, BA, U.S. History, 1970

• Leon County Value Adjustment Board (Current)
• Chairman, Watershed Planning Council, 2006-07
• Chairman, Capital Regional Transportation & Planning Agency (CRTPA) - 2006-07
• Chairman, Blueprint 2000 Intergovernmental Agency, 2005-06
• Leon County Criminal Justice Coordinating Committee
• Steering Commitee, National Association of Counties
• Big Bend Cares, Inc
• Economic Development Council, Tallahassee Area Chamber of Commerce
• Twenty-First Century Council, Leon County
• Member, Leon County Canvassing Board
• Member, Value Adjustment Board, Leon County
• Planet Gumbo Foundation Board of Directors

• Mary Brogan Museum of Art and Science
• Member, Tallahassee-Leon Civic Center Authority
• Co-Chair, Refuge House Capital Development Program
• President, Florida Association of Counties 2004-2005
• Chairman, NAACP 2000 Freedom Fund Banquet Committee
• Board of Directors, Conservation Leaders' Network
• Chairman, Leon County Board of County Commissioners - 1998-99, 2004-05
• 1997-98 - Chairman, Metropolitan Planning Organization
• 1980-1988 Supervisor, Ochlockonee River Soil &Water Conservation District