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JACK QUATMAN: After leaving SJC in 1967 (after Rhet year) I attended UC Berkeley. Quite a shock going from the small confines of St Joe's to the wide open and very active campus of Cal. However, it was a wonderful experience. Upon graduation in June of 1969, I attended Hastings Law School in San Francisco (part of the UC system and basically free at the time) studying law and fighting induction at the same time. The year 1972 saw both a successful completion of law school and a triumphant fight with the draft board. After passing the California Bar later that year I began to practice with the Alameda County District Attorney's Office in January of 1973. The DA's office was exciting, fun and it paid! I spent 25 years at the office doing every thing from family support work to death penalty litigation. In 1980 I married a lady with red hair named Phyllis. She was finishing Cal at the time and planned to become a teacher. After receiving her Masters at Cal we had our first child, Lyndsey, who is now 22. That finished the teacher plans since Phyllis stayed home with Lyndsey. Eventually Phyllis decided that she wanted to be come a lawyer and graduated from Hastings (still relatively free) in 1990. The law school years were a bit stressful in that Jack was born in the middle of her second year and I was trying death penalty cases. Upon passing the bar she went to work for the Contra Costa District Attorney's Office doing the same stuff that I was doing. In 1997 we decided to take the kids north to finish raising them. We sold the house, quite our jobs and moved to Whitefish, Montana--a town of 6,000, approximately 40 miles south of the Canadian bourder. For you snow ski persons, Whitefish is the home of a ski resort know as "The Big Mountain". Hunting, fishing, water skiing, snow skiing, hiking all are done in abundance. I personally do not do the hunting or fishing thing. Since moving here Phyllis and I have opened our own firm and practice "mountain" law. Great fun in a beautiful corner of the world. As of the writing of this bio Phyllis and I are thinking of changing our lives again. Since Lyndsey is a senior at Seattle University and will stay in the Seattle area after graduation and since Jack (now 17) is out the door in a year to attend the University of Montana in Missoula, we are thinking of selling the practice and slowing down the pace of life. I am not sure that full retirement is in the cards yet. 7/10/2015 |