Rome Hartman

He attended Catholic primary and high school in West Palm Beach and graduated from Duke University in 1977[4] with a BA in political science.

He served a term on the board of visitors at Duke University's Sanford School of Public Policy.

In 1983, he launched his network career as a field producer for CBS News in the Atlanta bureau.

[5][6] Hartman's tenure at CBS News began in 1983 as key producer in the coverage of major events.

From 1986 to 1989, he worked as the White House producer and received his first national Emmy award for his coverage of the Reagan-Gorbachev summit in Reykjavik, Iceland.