He entered the real estate brokerage business in 1975 and has remained active in the real estate business since that time. His experience includes residential and commercial brokerage and development, as well as property management, both as a practitioner and as a principal broker who is responsible for the supervision of other agents.

He has been a licensed instructor for several years and owns and operates the Dale Washburn School of Real Estate. He has written a pre-license textbook, Basics in the Business of Real Estate, that he now uses in Pre License Classes at his school. He also wrote a 25 Hour post-licensing textbook, You Have a Real Estate License, Now What? In addition, he has written several continuing education courses that are approved by the Georgia Real Estate Commission.

Dale has been active at every level of the Realtor organization having served as local board president, GAR vice president and several terms of NAR director. He was honored to be Middle Georgia Association of Realtors Realtor of the Year in 1994 and Georgia Realtor of the Year in 2004.

Dale has been active politically for many years. He served as vice chair of the Jones County Commission from 1985 through 1988. He has been involved in the campaigns of a number of congressional and legislative candidates, as well as serving as a political activist in the Realtor Organization for issues involving real estate and private property rights.

He is an active member of Ingleside Baptist Church in Macon, where he serves as a deacon and adult bible study leader.

He and his wife, Donna, have been married for over 40 years. They have three sons, a daughter, three daughters in law and five grandchildren. They also have an 85 pound mixed breed dog that was rescued from a terrible situation in downtown Macon. He is named Roscoe.

Dale considers it a great honor to have been elected to the Georgia House of Representatives. He is committed to doing his best to do a good job of representing Georgia's families and Georgia business.