David Moats has been editorial page editor of the Rutland Herald since 1992. Previously, he worked as wire editor, state editor, assistant managing editor and city editor of the Herald.

He was born in 1947 in Salt Lake City, Utah. He received a bachelor's degree in English from the University of California at Santa Barbara in 1969. From 1969 to 1972, he served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Afghanistan.

He is also the author of 11 plays. Four of his plays have been produced by theater companies in Vermont. One of them, entitled "Hard News," won the Vermont Playwright's Award in 1988 from the Valley Players in Waitsfield, VT.

He lives in Middlebury, Vt., and is the father of three children, Jared, Thatcher, and Nina Moats.