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Bob French - Summit County Commissioner
Born in Boston 1931. B. A. Williams College, Williamstown, MA 1953. Active duty USNR 1953-57. LL.B. Harvard University 1960. Private law practice in Washington, D.C. 1960-1971. Private practice in Breckenridge, CO 1971-2004. Bob's practice in Washington included a good deal of work for various trade associations in support of their legislative efforts before one congressional committee or another. He also did all the things his high-powered bosses thought beneath them: representation of small business corporations, divorces, court-appointed defense of juveniles, real estate deals, evictions, and the like. Much like the practice he carried on for 30 years here in Breckenridge, where he did his time as county attorney (1976-9), counsel to or board member of innumerable charitable non-profits, and, in his younger years, criminal defense-traffic, DUI's, minor assaults, etc. He's not sorry to say that his white hairs have long since cut off the 2am phone calls from the jail. In recent years he did whatever Summit County was doing: every kind of real estate all the way from zoning issues for major land development through condo documents and residential construction on down to landlord-tenant beefs; organization, operation, and transfers of small businesses, special districts (fire, water, metro), homeowner associations, estate planning, financing packages. That pretty much tells the professional story. Otherwise he's been known to walk up a hill, get on a pair of skis or a horse, cook a meal, and take a part in a play. Books are important. Music. He and Kay have a bunch of grandchildren, most of whom live in Colorado and occupy most of what passes for their spare time, when they're not engaged in domestic maintenance, trying to keep the house from falling down about their ears.