Frank Dillow

Class of 1968, JD 1977
Arlington, VA

Frank Dillow is originally from Silverton, Oregon, and recently retired from his position as vice president of federal government relations of Verizon Corporation, following a 25 year career, including the last 11 years in the corporate offices in Washington, D.C.  He is currently a vice president of sales in the commercial division of Long & Foster Real Estate responsible for commercial sales and leasing in Virginia, Washington, D.C. and Maryland, and was recently appointed to the commercial alliance for the Virginia Association of Realtors.

He graduated from Lewis & Clark College in 1968 with a BS in communications and political science. During his college career, Dillow was a part of the inaugural Washington D.C. program with Professor Don Balmer in the fall of 1965, and worked for the Piolog, KLC and played soccer.  Dillow worked as a journalist for numerous papers around the Northwest in the years after college and after receiving his JD from the Lewis & Clark Law School in 1977, he worked for the Oregon state government.

Frank currently resides in Arlington, Virginia, outside of the nation’s capital.  He met his wife Amy Dillow while they were riding horses at the Ox Ridge Hunt Club in Darian, Connecticut where Dillow was on the polo team and his wife competed in the national hunter championship. “I no longer ride, but she still does, although mostly ‘ride ‘em down the trail’ horses at our farm near Charlottesville, Virginia.”  Dillow continues to pursue writing, specifically on the topics of history and technology and his article, Connecting Oregon: The Slow Road to Rapid Communications 1846-2010 appeared in the summer 2010 issue of the Oregon Historical Quarterly.