Deacon Dubois earned a Master of Pastoral Studies degree with a focus on Pastoral Life and Administration from Loyola University of New Orleans and a bachelor's degree in Business Administration from Ashland University in Ohio. He has extensive marketing, communications, and business management experience that includes project direction, budgetary supervision, event and convention planning, and public relations.

Ordained for the Diocese of Toledo in May of 2000, Deacon Dubois' ministerial experience includes serving Catholic inmates at Mansfield Correctional Institute for the past nine years. In his assignment at Resurrection Parish near his home in Lexington, he is actively involved in RCIA, in forming Extraordinary Ministers of Holy Communion, and in teaching high school and adult religious education programs. Active also at the diocesan level, Deacon Dubois has served on the Deacons' Council and on the Aspirancy Board of the diaconate formation program. He serves the Toledo diocesan Office of Global Concerns by preaching at area parishes in solicitation of prayer and financial support for the Society for the Propagation of the Faith.

Deacon Dubois and Deborah, his wife, have been married for 28 years. Deborah is the Children's Outreach Librarian with the Mansfield/Richland County Public Library. She serves in her parish as an Extraordinary Minister of Holy Communion, lector, and webmaster for the parish's website. Tom and Deborah have two daughters: Aimee, who works as an industrial designer in Toledo, and Anne, who attends The Ohio State University in Columbus.

The Pontifical College Josephinum, located in Columbus since 1877, is owned by and at the service of the Holy See. Archbishop Pietro Sambi, the Apostolic Nuncio to the United States serves as Chancellor. Monsignor Paul J. Langsfeld is Rector/President. The Josephinum's programs in the formation of priests follow norms established by the Code of Canon Law, the Congregation for Catholic Education, and the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops. In 2007, the Josephinum's Board of Trustees established an Institute for the Formation and Ministry of the Permanent Diaconate as a visible commitment supporting the development of permanent deacons serving throughout the United States. NADD entered into a collaboration with the Josephinum in 2005 that led to the successful launch of a New Directors' Institute and the exploration of additional cooperative endeavors.