Tom Romig’s time at MHS was one of the most formative in his life. Good teachers and coaches gave him a foundation for his success as the U.S. Army’s JAG and Dean of Washburn School of Law. He credits his English teachers’ attention to good writing and his coaches for teaching that it’s not always the fastest or the strongest on the field but the player with heart and persistence who is the winner. Attending KSU, Romig graduated in 1970 with his second lieutenant’s commission. Early in his army career, he broke his back and was forced to rethink his plans. He applied and was selected for the Army Funded 
Legal Education Program to study at Santa Clara University School of Law in California. He graduated with honors in 1980 to become an officer in the Army Judge Advocate General’s Corps.
In 1996 he earned an MS in National Security Strategy from the National War College and taught International Law for three years at the Judge Advocate General’s School. In 2001, .at the rank of major general, Romig served as the 36th Judge Advocate General of the Army. It was a challenging period involving prisoners at Guantanamo Bay, in Iraq, and in Afghanistan. He supervised more than 9,000 personnel in 22 countries in variety of legal endeavors. He planned the largest deployment and combat mobilization of military legal personnel since World War II. In 2005, Gen. Romig, retired from the Army JAG Corps to serve two years with the Federal Aviation Administration. In 2007 he was appointed Dean of the Washburn University School of Law in Topeka, KS.