Tim Westmoreland is from the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina. 
He went to college at Duke and law school at Yale. 

He spent the first 15 years of his career (1979-1995) at the same desk,
working for the Subcommittee on Health and the Environment of the
House, under the chairmanship of Congressman Henry Waxman.  In that
job, he staffed hearings and legislation on public health, reproductive
health, biomedical research, biomedical ethics, and health regulation. 

From 1995 to 1999, he was a senior policy fellow at the Georgetown Law
Center, teaching in the clinical program on federal legislation.  During that
same period, he served as a counsel to the Koop-Kessler Advisory
Committee on Tobacco Policy and Public Health, as a senior advisor on
HIV/AIDS to the Kaiser Family Foundation, and as a lobbyist for the
Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation.

From 1999 until noon on January 20, 2001, he was the Director of the
Medicaid program at HCFA.  During that time, he worked on such
Sisyphean (and sometimes Augean) labors as TANF Delink, enrollment
simplification, Medicaid managed care patients’ rights, Olmstead/ADA
rights in Medicaid, and aggregated upper payment limits.

He now has a joint appointment at Georgetown University, as a visiting
professor of law and a research professor of public policy.  In that
capacity, he teaches about federal budget policy and about legislation and
statutory interpretation.