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EXPERIENCE/Representative Clients
Flood Control Clients
California Central Valley Flood Control Association (60 member districts).
Approximately 20 reclamation districts, including Nos. 3, 108, 800 (Cosumnes), 900, 999, and 1500.
Sacramento River West Side Levee District, Brannan-Andrus Levee Maintenance District, Knights Landing Ridge Drainage, Colusa Basin Drainage District.
Water Services Agency Clients
Sacramento River Water Contractors Association.
North Delta Water Agency.
South Sutter Water District.
Maine Prairie Water District.
Omochumne-Hartnell Water District.
Colusa Drain Mutual Water Company.
Sutter Mutual Water Company.
Pelger Mutual Water Company.
Pleasant Grove-Verona Mutual Water Company.
Water Quality Clients
Sacramento Valley Water Quality Committee (which represented approximately one million acres of agricultural lands in the Sacramento Valley ) North Delta Water Quality Committee (which represented 300,000 acres in northern portion of Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta) - committees no longer active.
Water-Related Recreational Activity Clients
Special counsel for County of Kern in reserving a minimum recreation pool at Lake Isabella on Kern River, 1963.
Oil and Gas Clients
County of Sacramento.
City of Davis.
El Macero Country Club.
Reclamation District Nos. 108, 1000 and others.
Sacramento Yolo Port District.
Numerous farm operators from Contra Costa and Merced Counties on the South to Butte County and North.
MEMBERSHIPS
U.S. Supreme Court & Federal Courts, Admitted to Practice
Sacramento County Bar Association, Member
Excellence in Water Leadership Award from Association of California Water Agencies, Past Recipient
EDUCATION
University of California, Berkeley, School of Law (Boalt Hall) (LL.M.. 1956)
University of California Berkeley (LL.B., Order of the Coif, 1954)
University of the Pacific (B.A., 1948)
University of Uppsala, Sweden (Research on the Comparative Law of Insurance, 1955)
University of Stockholm, Sweden (Graduate Work 1948-1949)
PUBLICATIONS
California Historian, "An Overview of Water Rights and Development in California,"Spring 2004, Co-Author
Battling the River - a History of Reclamation District 108, 2003, Author
California Water Law & Policy Reporter , "Water-User Transfer Legislation: Is it needed?" November 1993, Co-Author with David Aladjem
Landman (Official Publication of The American Association for Petroleum Landmen) Landowner's Approach to the Oil and Gas Lease -- A California Perspective, August 1981, Author
PRESENTATIONS
Sacramento Rotary, History of Water and Flood Control, 2001, Speaker
McGeorge School of Law, 1958-1964, Professor of Law
CHARITABLE
California State Library Foundation, Vice President and Past President
California Historical Foundation, Past President and Past Trustee
California Historical Society, Past President
Sacramento Metropolitan YMCA, Past President
Rotary Club of Sacramento, Past President
Rotary Club of Sacramento Foundation, Past President
Sacramento Symphony Association, Past President
Crocker Art Museum Association, Past President
Crocker Art Museum Foundation, Past Trustee
Sacramento YMCA Foundation, Past President and Trustee
California Capitol Historic Preservation Society, Past Trustee
Sacramento Trust for Historic Preservation, Trustee
Pfund Family Foundation, Trustee
Sacramento Pioneer Association, Past Trustee.
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