Charles Robb

Charles "Chuck" Robb is an American politician and former officer in the United States Marine Corps. He is a Vietnam veteran and was awarded the Bronze Star for his service.

Robb served as lieutenant governor of Virginia from 1978 to 1982, as governor of Virginia from 1982 to 1986, and then as a United States senator from 1989 until 2001. In 2004, he co-chaired the Iraq Intelligence Commission. In 2006, he was appointed to serve on the U.S. President's Intelligence Advisory Board. Robb has served since 2001 as a member of the Board of Trustees of the MITRE Corporation. Robb serves as a co-leader of the National Security Project (NSP) at the Bipartisan Policy Center. He is also a former member of the Trilateral Commission and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, for which he served on the Independent Task Force on Pakistan and Afghanistan.

Robb was born in Phoenix, Arizona. He earned his B.A. from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1961 and is honor graduate of Quantico. After the Vietnam War, he earned a J.D. from the University of Virginia Law School.

He is married to Lynda Johnson Robb, daughter of former U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson. They have three daughters and three grandchildren and reside in McLean, Virginia.