Army Major General Robert L. Nabors is senior Vice President for EDS U.S. Government Solutions, with special responsibility for Homeland Security. He is the father of Rob Nabors

Rob Nabors

Rob Nabors is the Director of Legislative Affairs in the administration of U.S. President Barack Obama. Previously, he served as Deputy Director of the Office of Management and Budget and Senior Advisor to Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel....

, who is head of the White House's legislative affairs office.

Background

Robert L. Nabors is a Western New York native who grew up in Lackawanna and is a graduate of Lackawanna's class of 1964. Although he traces his roots to the American South, he is the youngest son of Mansfield and Mabel Nabors of Buckingham County, Virginia

Virginia

The Commonwealth of Virginia , is a U.S. state on the Atlantic Coast of the Southern United States. Virginia is nicknamed the "Old Dominion" and sometimes the "Mother of Presidents" after the eight U.S. presidents born there...

. Nabors was a highly decorated African American

African American

African Americans are citizens or residents of the United States who have at least partial ancestry from any of the native populations of Sub-Saharan Africa and are the direct descendants of enslaved Africans within the boundaries of the present United States...

 U.S. Army officer who has received nearly 400 awards and honors and 38 official military awards and decorations. Major General Nabors received the Distinguished Service Medal, the military's third-highest award; Defense Superior Service Medal; Legion of Merit with four oak leaf clusters; Bronze Star Medal; and the Presidential Support Badge. Nabors honorary awards include NAACP Roy Wilkins Award of Renown 2000. Nabors received a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Southern California

University of Southern California

The University of Southern California is a private, not-for-profit, nonsectarian, research university located in Los Angeles, California, United States. USC was founded in 1880, making it California's oldest private research university...

. He served as a senior fellow in the National Security Affairs Program at Harvard. Nabors also is a member of the American Mensa Society.