Governor Robert L. Ehrlich is a graduate of Princeton University and Wake Forest University School of Law, and is a former governor of Maryland as well as a former United States congressman and state legislator.

He is the author of Turn This Car Around, America: Hope for Change, Turning Point, and Bet You Didn't See That One Coming, in addition to columns and opinion pieces that have appeared in America's leading newspapers and periodicals, including The Washington Examiner, The Washington Post, The Baltimore Sun, The Washington Times, The Weekly Standard, National Review, and Western Journal online.

Governor Ehrlich is counsel at the firm of King & Spalding in Washington, D.C., and lives with his wife, Kendel, and their children, Drew and Josh, in Annapolis, Maryland.