Business and Public Service Career
From 1986 to 1988, DeVore served in the Reagan Administration as a Special Assistant for Foreign Affairs in the Department of Defense. In that capacity, he worked on Capitol Hill and traveled to Europe, Africa, Asia and Central America.
In 1988, DeVore was the public liaison director for the Congressional campaign of Reagan's Senior Associate Counsel Christopher Cox. After Cox won the election, DeVore served as senior assistant to Cox during his first term.
In 1991, DeVore joined SM&A, an aerospace engineering and management services firm in Newport Beach. Upon his election to the Assembly in 2004, DeVore was vice president for research for the firm. He also became an Irvine City Commissioner that year, serving until 1996. DeVore was Vice Chairman of the Irvine Community Services Commission from 1993 to 1994 and served as chairman from 1994 to 1995. He also served as an elected member of Republican Party Central Committee of Orange County from 1993 to 2003.
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