Lawton Baker

• B.S., Business Administration, Old Dominion University
• Member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and Virginia Society of Certified Public Accountants
• Former president of the Tidewater Chapter of Virginia Society of Certified Public Accountants
• Board member of Towne Bank Financial Services Board , and former Founding Board Member, Audit Committee Chairman, and Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors for Monarch Bank
•  Vice Chairman for the StoneBridge School Board, Chesapeake

A CPA with 40 years of tax, business and individual planning experience, Lawton co-founded Focus Asset Management with Gene McNiff in 1998. A life-long resident of Portsmouth, Lawton is a Sunday School teacher at St. Andrews United Methodist Church in Portsmouth, and a member and past President of the Churchland Kiwanis Club. He enjoys sailing, reading, travel, Old Dominion sports and spending time with his wife, two sons and daughter-in-law