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Bob Eason's career combines experience in financial, labor, and law enforcement leadership.  He served on the Chatham County Sheriff's Department where he was assigned to work on the Savannah Police Department's Vice and Intelligence Unit.  While there he received commendations from the Chief of Police for working on the gang task force.  After working in law enforcement, Bob was elected business agent and president of Local 1475 of the International Longshoremen’s Association in Savannah, Georgia, and he became a trustee of its pension fund.

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He was named one of the key individuals in the "People's Infrastructure of Georgia," by the Georgia Ports Authority.  In 1988, Bob was the recipient of the I.L.A.'s Thomas Gleason Award for "outstanding achievement in furthering the interests of longshoremen."  In 1993, Eason was appointed to the State of Georgia's Labor Commissioner’s Advisory Council and became a member of the State of Israel Bond Fund Advisory Board.  In 1993 Bob founded the Union Standard Trust mutual fund while working for Massachusetts Financial Services and American Capital Strategies in Washington and Boston.  Bob became a Reserve Deputy Sheriff of the Middlesex County Sheriff's Department and has maintained his status since 1996.  In 2012 Bob was elected Treasurer of F.O.P. Lodge 7 in Savannah and continued to serve in that position until 2022 when he was elected Vice- President.  He was appointed Chairman of the Labor Committee for the State of Georgia Fraternal Order of Police in 2015.  Mr. Eason completed the National Fraternal Order of Police Leadership Training and Collective Bargaining Conference.  In 2016, Bob was invited by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to participate in a consortium and training group at the Behavioral Science and Counterterrorism Division at the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center in Glynco, Ga.  He attended the University of Georgia and Armstrong State University where he majored in history and political science.  Bob continues to be involved in civic and community affairs and was profiled in Savannah Magazine in an article "The Life Quixotic" and was named "Man of the Year" in 2016 by the International Longshoremen's Association Local 1475 in Savannah.