Before being sworn in as Mayor on Tuesday, November 20, 2018, Bobby Dyer represented the Centerville District for 14 years. He currently works as a physical therapist. His prior positions include health care executive, business consultant and assistant professor in the School of Government at Regent University. Dyer served in the United States Marine Corps from 1968 to 1972. In 1976 he earned a bachelor's degree in physical therapy from Saint Louis University and in 1982 a master's in public administration from Fairleigh Dickinson University. He earned his Ph.D. in organizational leadership from Regent University in 2001. He currently serves as the City Council liaison to the Human Rights Commission and the Process Improvement Steering Committee, which he initiated.  He has also been appointed to serve on the Hampton Roads Planning Commission and the Hampton Roads Transportation Planning Organization. Bobby and his wife, Trish, live in the Lake Christopher section of the Centerville District and have two children and two grandchildren.  ​​​​