Diddo Clark, Attorney at Law, is networking for work. ClarkPeaceNow@gmail 3527 Mt. Diablo Blvd., #131, Lafayette CA 94549 I seek employment - short-term, part-time, and full-time for the next 10 years - in the San Francisco East Bay Area or San Francisco. I offer skills in communicating, speaking, mediating, leading, lawyering, writing, editing, and organizing. According to my swim mentor - the late Kelley B. Lemmon, Major General, U.S. Army - I have strength, stamina, intestinal fortitude, and the will to win. I believe that, to the extent I have these qualities, I got them from Kelley Lemmon. Because of his inspiration, I become the first female to swim around Manhattan Island in less than 7 hours. I like people; Im happy to see practically everyone with whom I cross paths; and I love contributing to the lives of others. Ive been out of the labor market this millennium for family matters and now Im back, eager to work. DISPUTE RESOLVER. Mediated and arbitrated large numbers of conflicts to resolve issues so parties could get on with their lives - and litigated successfully at every level of court in the U.S. Secured the first art preservation injunction in the U.S., prior to art preservation statutes. Court appointed mediator since before there was a word for it - 1975. Arbitrator since 1980. American Arbitration Association, courts, and others. U.S. Courts of Appeals. Represented the U.S. Secretary of Labor in the U.S. Courts of Appeals for 4 years and won every case. One of those cases was appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court; assisted in successful effort to deny that appeal. Superior Court. Won various cases including a Contra Costa Superior Court trust case that was in trial from 2/25/2014 to 4/16/2014. Moot Court National Champion, Jessup International Moot Court - represented Georgetown University Law Center in competition with teams from 105 law schools. Judge Pro Tem, Contra Costa County / Alameda County Superior Courts, 1992 - 2006. ELECTED OFFICIAL PRACTICALLY ALL OF THIS MILLENNIUM. Elected, in every partisan Primary Election since 2001, by the Registered Democrats of the Contra Costa County 2nd Supervisorial District, to represent them on the Contra Costa County Democratic Central Committee. Served as a Central Committee officer, or on the Executive Committee, much of that time. Endorsed, in 2000, during run for Contra Costa Community College District Governing Board by: Congressman George Miller, then California Superintendent of Public Instruction Delaine Easton, then California Assembly members Lynne Leach (Republican, Walnut Creek) and Tom Torlakson (Democrat, Antioch; current CA Superintendent of Public Instruction), 4 of the 5 County Supervisors (including soon to be Congressman Mark DeSaulnier), 19 local mayors or former mayors, and practically everybody else who endorsed. LEADER AND ORGANIZER. Co-Chair of the Alameda County Bar Association Delegation to the State Bar of CA Conference of Delegates, 1998-99; ‘97 Vice-Chair; ‘96 Delegate. Creator and director of the most ambitious swimming race ever held in San Francisco Bay - the Pt. Bonita Swim, 10 k in SF Bay w/ the Golden Gate Bridge midway, 1989-95. President of the D.C. Masters Swim Team when the team won the U.S. Masters Swimming National Championships in 1984. Creator and teacher of the first University of California course on the Pursuit of Excellence. Guests included: Nobel Prize winning physicist Hannes Alfven; World Council of Churches head Eugene Carson Blake; childrens book writer Theodor Seuss Geisel (Dr. Seuss); philosopher Herbert Marcuse; Admiral Ray Peet of the First Fleet (on his flagship in San Diego harbor); immunologist Jonas Salk; and the San Diego mayor, the UCSD chancellor, and the San Diego State University president, 1970-1972. WRITER, editor of books, pleadings, articles in national magazines, and other publications. VOLUNTEER for: Golden Gate National Recreation Area (Pt. Bonita Lighthouse docent; led tours one afternoon a month for several years); University of California Alumni Association (lobbied the legislature for the U.C. budget a day or 2 a year for 20 years, 1988-98); League of Women Voters (Lafayette Unit Leader); City of Lafayette (Lafayette City Manager Search Committee, Lafayette Blue Ribbon Parklands Task Force, and Lafayette Commission on the Bicentennial of the U.S. Constitution); Contact Care telephone crisis line (listener for several years); and Head Start / Contra Costa County Library reading program (read to preschoolers for several years). AWARDS. American Arbitration Association Meritorious Service as an Arbitrator. U.S. Swimming National Record for the fastest swim around Manhattan Island. EMPLOYMENT. Clark family matters - 2000 - 2014. DISPUTE RESOLVERS - principal of a law firm which provided mediation, arbitration, neutral evaluation, and other nonpartisan services; 1992 - 2000. DISPUTE RESOLVERS California Service Mark, 1992-2012. Law Office of Diddo Clark - trust, property, commercial, employment, and negligence law; administrative law and policy, and alternative dispute resolution; 1984 - 2000. U.S. Department of Labor - defended the Secretary of Labor in the U.S. Courts of Appeals in trade cases and reported for the U.S. to the International Labor Organization on the status of U.S. law & practice with respect to I.L.O. treaties; 1979-83. Solomon Ward Aguirre & Seidenwurm - corporate law & litigation; San Diego, 1978. EDUCATION. Juris Doctor, Georgetown University Law Center, Washington, D.C., 1976. Bachelor of Arts in Communications, University of California, San Diego CA, 1973. Associate of Arts in Sociology, Diablo Valley College, Pleasant Hill, CA.
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