DAVID ROBERT WOOTEN, HonFSHA
David is originally from Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA, and after decades of relocating is proud to call it home once again. He majored in Ancient Near Eastern History, though his professional career ran the gamut from retail sales and management, to manufacturing, to marketing, to corporate sales, and even real estate. Relatively retired, he now focuses on graphic design – with a heavy emphasis on all things heraldic, as well as publishing and writing innumerable newsletters, journals, and books.
He serves as Executive Director of The American College of Heraldry and is a Distinguished Fellow of the same organization. In this capacity he has worked with hundreds of individuals from around the world designing and registering their armorial bearings with the College. Since 1990 he has served as the Editor of the College’s quarterly – and penned numerous articles for – The Armiger’s News, now reaching its 50th year in publication.
He also still keeps his graphic hand in producing digital/clipart emblazonments for hundreds of members of the Discord Rolls of Arms server.
Separate from his heraldic duties, he is also Founder/Director of The International Sister Fidelma Society, and serves as the Editor of its thrice-yearly publication, The Brehon, Journal of The International Sister Fidelma Society. In addition, he is also involved in far too many other organizations and societies to list here.
Heraldry Books as Author, Editor, or Contributor
- The Armiger’s News Omnibus: 2011-2020 (Ed., The American College of Heraldry, 2022).
- American Heraldry in Color – REDUX – Twentieth Anniversary Reissue (Ed., The American College of Heraldry, 2022).
- The Heraldic Register of America – Golden Anniversary Edition; Series II, Volume 1 (Ed., The American College of Heraldry, 2022).
- The Heraldic Register of America (Asst. Ed., Vols. 7-17; Ed., Vols. 14-17, , American College of Heraldry).
- يا سيد ووتن’ انا سعيد بالاستماع تعليمك في اللغة العربية. يتضمن هذا البريد الكتروني النسخة الكترونية كاملة من كتابي.; أفادک اللالله [An Introduction to the History and Principles of Heraldry] (Contributor; published in Persian only inside of Iran by Asre Novin, 2015).
- The New Oxford Dictionary of American English (Specialist Ed., Heraldry, Oxford University Press).
Non-Heraldry Books as Author or Editor
- Sister Fidelma’s Bodyguards: Who Were the Nasc Niadh in the Sister Fidelma Mysteries of Peter Tremayne? (Ed., Phoenix Press, 2022).
- The Sister Fidelma Compendium: A Reader’s Guide to the Sister Fidelma Mysteries of Peter Tremayne (Ed., Gryfons Publishers & Distributors, 2022).
- Sister Fidelma Mysteries: Essays on the Historical Novels of Peter Tremayne (Co-Ed. with Edward J. Rielly, McFarland & Company, 2012).
- We All Become Forefathers: Genealogies of the Wooten, Boykin, Whitaker and Broadhurst Families (Higginson Books, MA, 1993).
- Descendants of Thomas Watton of Castor (Phoenix Press, Charleston, SC, 2005).
- Descendants of Edward Boykin (Phoenix Press, Charleston, SC, 2005).
- Descendants of Johias Whitaker (Phoenix Press, Charleston, SC, 2005).
- Register of Orders of Chivalry/Registre des Ordred de Chevalerie [Report of the International Commission for Orders of Chivalry] (Ed., Gryfons Publishers, 1996-1999).
- Sister Fidelma’s Cashel: The Early Kings of Munster and their Capital, Peter Tremayne (Author) (Ed., The International Sister Fidelma Society, 2008).
- Scréach ón Tuama [A Scream from the Sepulchre], Peter Tremayne (Author), Gearoid Ó Laoi (Translator), Ed., published only in Irish, The International Sister Fidelma Society, 2008 & 2022).
- When Was the UK?, Peter Berresford Ellis (Author), (Ed., Phoenix Press, privately distributed, 2024).
- The Invention of Christianity, Peter Berresford Ellis (Author), (Ed., Phoenix Press, privately distributed, 2024).
- The Empty Glens and Other Poems: Selected from 1971-2022, Peter Berresford Ellis (Author), (Ed., Phoenix Press, privately distributed, 2022).
- Asteroid, Peter Berresford Ellis (Author), (Ed., Phoenix Press, privately distributed, 2023).
- Silent Knight, Craig L. Carlson (Author), (Ed., Phoenix Press, 2001 1st Ed; 2024 2nd Ed).