I received my J.D. degree from Gonzaga University in 1962 and was admitted to the Washington State Bar, the Federal District Bar for Western Washington and was admitted to practice before the Unite...view moreI received my J.D. degree from Gonzaga University in 1962 and was admitted to the Washington State Bar, the Federal District Bar for Western Washington and was admitted to practice before the United States Supreme Court. I engaged in the private practice of law for thirty years in the field of Administrative and Regulatory Law. I served for four Years as an Administrative Law Judge with the Washington Utilities and Transportation Commission. I served for twelve years on the Redmond, Washington City Council, four years as its President. I obtained my pre-law Credits from the University of Idaho, Washington State University and Gonzaga University where I studied philosophy, history and economics. I got my pre-law credits and my law degree (J.D.) while working full time and providing for the sole support for my wife Betty (of sixty two years) and four children. I now have dual residences in Washington and Arizona. I have authored three other books. One is a historical adventure-romance novel entitled STEPTOE-The Victors and the Vanquished on the Trail to Oregon. The novel depicts the dramatic period of the administration of President Polk who expanded America’s boundaries from the Mississippi to the Pacific. FROM THE GREAT DEPRESSION TO THE GREAT RECESSION; Eighty Years of Democrats, Democracy and Deceit is an autobiographical sketch of what life was like growing up in rural, small town America during the Great Depression, World War II and the regional conflicts that followed in Korea and Viet Nam. The third book; Obamanomics and the New Social Order, Nation Building on a Chard Card deals with the recent recession, its causes and its consequences. All of these books are available on Amazon.view less