Meet Tom Rombach
Citing the need to restore leadership and integrity to the prosecutor’s office, former State Bar of Michigan President Tom Rombach filed to run for Macomb County Prosecutor on April 17.
“Macomb County deserves a prosecutor who is singularly focused on protecting the public,” Rombach said. “With over three decades of courtroom trial experience, I am a tough, experienced leader who can restore integrity to the prosecutor’s office.”
Rombach’s expertise -- earned as a former Hazel Park Prosecutor, criminal defense attorney, leader in the legal profession and ethics reformer -- makes him uniquely qualified to revitalize the prosecutor’s office. “I am a tough advocate,” Rombach said. “As prosecutor, I will aggressively fight for the residents of Macomb County just as I have fought for all my clients throughout my career.”
In 2014, Rombach successfully led the 43,000 attorneys in the state, becoming only the third Macomb County lawyer ever elected as President in the 85-year history of the State Bar of Michigan. As President, Rombach refocused the State Bar on its principle mission of protecting the public. Overseeing a $10 million annual budget and 72 full-time employees, Rombach led historic statewide reforms in the legal profession.
Tom and his wife, Bonnie, at the State Bar Leadership Forum when Tom was State Bar of Michigan President
In 2002, Rombach was elected Chair of the Representative Assembly, the State Bar’s final policy-making body. As an elected Representative of the lawyers in Macomb County, Rombach spearheaded ethics reform efforts for all Michigan attorneys. In 1997, Rombach became the first Macomb County Bar President ever elected under the age of 40. As President, Rombach led the design and implementation of judicial campaign reform measures in Macomb County.
In 2008, Rombach was elected Macomb County Charter Commissioner from Clinton Township. As Chair of the Executive/Commissioner Committee, Rombach helped lead his 25 colleagues in designing the new Macomb County Executive’s Office and reducing the number of County Commissioners in half. As part of this historic reform, a strict new ethics policy for Macomb County was mandated.
As Macomb County Commissioner and Vice-Chairperson of the Commission’s Justice and Public Safety Committee in 2001, Rombach championed providing law enforcement with the resources necessary to protect our community, particularly our senior citizens and our children.
For the past five years, Rombach, 62, has been recognized as a Michigan “Super Lawyer” by Super Lawyers, a peer-reviewed division of Thomson Reuters. Rombach currently represents Michigan lawyers in the National Conference of Bar Presidents and the American Bar Association House of Delegates.