Meet Ron
Years ago, lawyering was the last career I ever expected to enter. And it probably will be the last career for me – number five.
I started law school at an age many people retire. Before that, I was a highway engineer in Montana, a magazine and newspaper journalist in Georgia and Tennessee, a corporate public relations executive in Tennessee, and founder of a Denver digital marketing and mass communications firm for doctors and lawyers more than three decades ago.
(I was also a professional musician for a time. And you might have seen me on Denver 9News weekly for four years as a current affairs panelist.)
My life changed thunderously when my wife died suddenly of a stroke in 2013. Afterward, I thought a lot about why I lived and she didn’t. My conclusion was to somehow pay my random luck of survival forward to the less fortunate. But how?
Just a few years later, the news was filled with reports of cruel, racist, and harshly inhumane treatment of immigrants at the U.S. southern border. My reaction: “I’ve got to do something about that.”
So, here I am, a 2022 graduate of Mitchell Hamline Law School in St. Paul, Minnesota and an immigration attorney. My mission is to serve immigrants who struggle to find affordable legal services.
My focused law interests are in asylum, marriage-and-family related immigration, and Special Immigrant Juvenile Status (SIJS).
Outside of law, I still consult with physicians and attorneys on new-business development and improving practice efficiency. I’m also an avid skier and cyclist, and I play three musical instruments whenever I can (not as often as I like).
People sometimes ask what I want to do when I grow up. My answer: Everything!
Languages: English and French (working proficiency)
Long live the American dream!
¡Viva el sueño americano!
Vive le rêve américain !