R. LEE WRIGHTS

Background: Wrights graduated from West Forsyth High School in Clemmons, North Carolina in 1976. Afterwards he enlisted in the United States Air Force, and served as a medical services technician at Seymour Johnson Air Force Base, Goldsboro, North Carolina. He was honorably discharged in 1981 with the rank of sergeant.

Wrights earned a degree from Willmar College in Willmar, Minnesota where he majored in history and journalism. After college, he was a contributing editor for the Eagle News, a monthly political news and commentary newspaper in Forsyth County.

Writing careerWrights founded LibertyForAll.net with J. Michael Bragg in 2000, a free speech publication with the motto "Let Your Voice Be Heard" which claims "no one is turned away and no one is censored".

In 2001 Wrights began work as an editor of the Free Market Daily, an e-mail newsletter distributed by FreeMarket.net. After FreeMarket.net shut down in 2002, Wrights joined a group that began the Rational Review News Digest, a daily web and email-based news and commentary roundup. He has been an editor of the Rational Review News Digest ever since.

From 2005 to 2008, Wrights worked as editor of the Choice Channel for the International Society for Individual Liberty.

Political activity
"I Am Not At War" R. Lee Wrights, speaking at LPNC 2011 State ConventionWrights has been active in local, state and national Libertarian Party organizations since 2000 and is a lifetime member of the Libertarian Party. He has served as secretary and chair of the Libertarian Party of Forsyth County, N.C. and was vice chair of the Libertarian Party of North Carolina (LPNC) for seven years. He also served as the LPNC ballot access director for two years.

Wrights served as an at-large member of the Libertarian National Committee (LNC) and was LNC vice chair for two years. During his time on the LNC, Wrights also served four years on the platform committee. He is currently a member of the Libertarian Party judicial committee, elected to that body by the 2010 national convention.

In Burnet, Texas, where he now lives, Wrights chairs the Burnet County LP and is the Senate District 24 representative to the Texas LP State Executive Committee. In 2008, Wrights was campaign manager for the Mary Ruwart for President Committee, and in 2010, he managed Ruwart's campaign for Texas State Comptroller.

Wrights is president of the Foundation for a Free Society, a 501(c)(3) non-profit educational organization dedicated to promoting the principles of liberty, personal sovereignty, private property, and free markets in order to create a more free and prosperous society.

On April 16, 2011, Wrights officially announced his intention to seek the presidential nomination from the Libertarian Party in the election of 2012.[2][3]

Employment: Wrights works as the secretary and communications director for Sativa Science, a pharmaceutical start-up company.

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