Millennium Magazine_8th Ed

237 Millennium - A Marquis Who’s Who Magazine LAW AND LAW ENFORCEMENT as an associate. After serving the firm for two years, he became partner at Pettitt, Blumberg & Sherr and its successor firms in 1964, holding the role until 1975. For the following 23 years, he excelled in private practice in Clovis and North Fork, California. Subsequently, he became counsel on the standing Chapter 13 trustee, and from 2006 until his retirement in 2014, he was a staff member of the Fresno Area Chamber of Commerce. Alongside his legal endeavors, Mr. Flanagan was an educator at California State University, Fresno, where he taught the first class in dispute resolution. He also created and taught two courses in civil procedure and water law at Humprey’s College of Law, and lent his expertise to the Emerson Institute, National University and Notre Dame de Namur University. Upon retirement, he received a 50-Year Service Award from the California State Bar. Demonstrating versatility, Mr. Flanagan pursued a writing career post-retirement and authored “Managing Conflict: Strategies to Create and Teach Resolution of Conflict” in 2016 and co- authored “Resolving Conflict by Mediation” in 2019. He served as a weekly columnist for two local newspapers. Currently, he is working on three books: “Conversation without Conflict,” “Dinosaur Lawyer” and “Irish Boy.” Mr. Flanagan has served as president and secretary of the North Fork Chamber of Commerce, State Board of Governors member of the California Trial Lawyers Association, vice president and president of the Fresno chapter of the Serra Club, senior active member of the Rotary Club of North Fresno, lifetime member of the Stanford Alumni Association, and member of the Marine Corps League and Military Officers Association of America. He is a past grand knight, past faithful navigator and fourth degree honor guard knight of the Knights of Columbus. I nitially desiring to enter the FBI, James H. Flanagan Jr. pursued the legal profession. Receiving a BA in political science and JD from Stanford University in 1956 and 1961, respectively, he decided to turn down a job offer from the FBI in order to spearhead his legal career in an effort to help others. In 1962, Mr. Flanagan joined Creede, Dawson & McElrath JAMES H. FLANAGAN JR. ATTORNEY, EDUCATOR, WRITER Madera, CA