Mr. Tondo is a California attorney. He has been in practice for twenty-six years. In school, he studied Classical Greek and Latin. He achieved designation as a Classic Language Scholar. Mr. Tondo has been an evangelical Christian since age 15. He was first baptized in a Baptist church. He has spent most of his thirty-one years as a Christian attending a Reformed Calvinist congregation. From 1998-2002, Mr. Tondo served as a self-funded missionary with his wife Laura in Costa Rica in an outreach to children of the very poor in the Las Tablas project.