J. Stewart Willis is a graduate of the United States Military Academy and the graduate school of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He served in Taiwan and later as Signal Officer of the 173rd Airborne Brigade in Vietnam. He spent sixteen years of his army career as a Professor of Physics at the Military Academy. Following retirement from the military, he worked with TRW Inc. as a manager on the Department of Energy's Nuclear Waste Project at Yucca Mountain in Nevada. He was mayor of the Town of Washington, Virginia (often referred to as Little Washington) for nine years. He lives in Sperryville, Virginia with Charlie, his greyhound/borzoi mix.
