John R. "Jack" Faust (born June 16, 1932) is a retired Portland, Oregon, attorney, television personality and political activist.
Early life
Education Faust graduated from Jefferson High School in Portland, Oregon in 1949, the University of Oregon in 1953, and graduated first in his class at the University of Oregon Law School in 1958. At law school he was Editor-in-chief of the law reviewSmith, Jill (December 23, 1992). "The company he keeps". Willamette Week. and received the Order of the Coif and the Phi Delta Phi Award for Outstanding Graduate Pacific Northwest.Bulletin, Portland City Club, April 19, 1974
Military service Served in the U.S. Army from 1953 to 1955 as a Special Agent in the 441st Counterintelligence Corps detachment, Far East Command.Painter, John Jr. "Jack of All Trades," The Oregonian, May 29, 1994.
Career
Attorney A well-known Oregon lawyer, he practiced with Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt of Portland and retired 2007. His practice consisted of corporate, appellate and general law. Faust represented public utilities, insurance companies, local baseball teams, public officials, public figures, pro bono clients, and numerous others.Smith. He served as president of the Multnomah County Bar Association, and vice-president of the Oregon State Bar.Beck, Andee. "KATU assigns new Town Hall Anchor," The Oregon Journal, October 8, 1980. Faust was selected by his peers for listing in Best Lawyers in America,Goldfield, Robert. "State's lawyers rated among the best," Daily Journal of Commerce (Portland), February 21, 1989. and Best Lawyers in Portland.Calhoun, Martha. "Portland's Best Lawyers 2008," Portland Monthly magazine, June 2008. He is featured as the team's lawyer in the 2014 prize-winning "Battered Bastards of Baseball," a Netflix documentary on the short but colorful life of the Portland Mavericks baseball team. Faust was president of the Multnomah Bar Association from 1974 to 1975.
Town Hall For 13 years, Faust moderated Town Hall, a weekly public affairs television program on ABC affiliate KATU.Schulberg, Pete (April 28, 1993). "Jack Faust of 'Town Hall': big shoes to fill". The Oregonian, p. B7. The program featured discussions, often contentious, between public officials, experts and plain citizens on topics that ranged from serious (child abuse) to light (alien abductions). It drew high ratingsDurbin, Kathie. "Bizarre to Boring; Faust has seen it all," The Oregonian, July 12, 1987. and received numerous honors including national awards from United Press International, the San Francisco State Broadcaster,Dunn, Robert Paul, "Town Hall," Cascade Voice, Jan 23, 1984. and the Iris Award for Outstanding Local Public Affairs Program in the Nation from the National Association of Television Program Executives.Cascade Voice 1/23/84
Business Jack Faust's business activities include serving on the boards of Pacific Northwest Bell, Equitable Savings & Loan and Western Savings Bank.Beck, Andee. "KATU assigns new Town Hall Anchor," The Oregon Journal, October 8, 1980.
Civic involvement
His civic involvement includes time spent as a member of the United States Advisory Committee on Trade Negotiations, the United States Bus De-regulation Commission, the Oregon Land Conservation and Development Commission (vice chairman), the Oregon Commission on Higher Education In Portland, the Oregon Transportation Study Committee, the Multnomah County Charter review Committee (chairman), the Metropolitan Coliseum-Stadium Task Force,Painter. and the Oregon Trail Commission Coordinating Council.Smith.
Faust also served as chairman of the Board of Lewis & Clark College, and as a member of the boards of Portland Opera, Campfire Girls, SEI, Arlington Club (president). He served as master of ceremonies or speaker at numerous civic banquets and charitable fundraisers, where he Introduced Presidents Ford, Reagan, Bush Sr., Vice President Nelson Rockefeller, U.S. senators, Oregon governors from Tom McCall to Ted Kulongoski, and other public figures.Painter. He served as a director of Oregonians for Higher Education Excellence, a committee that successfully advocated for the 2013 Oregon legislation giving the state's seven public universities self-governance.
Politics Faust was Campaign Chairman for Senator Bob Packwood from 1974 to 1992, and active in the campaigns of Oregon Governors Victor Atiyeh and Tom McCall, Oregon Secretary of State Norma Paulus, Oregon Attorney General Lee Johnson, and others.painter.
Awards He was named Portland's First Citizen,"Past first citizens," Portland Metropolitan Association of Realtors, recognized as Multnomah County Medical Society Layman of the Year, received the Distinguished Service Award of the Anti-Defamation League, and the Salvation Army Community Pride Award, an Honorary Doctor of Humanities Degree from Lewis & Clark College, the Drug Awareness Council Person of the Year Award, the Oregon Toastmasters Communicator of the Year, and also named as one of 100 Outstanding Graduates of Jefferson High from 1909 to 2009.100 Years of Excellence," Jefferson High School publication (2009), p. 108
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