Robert L. Hale is an attorney, an entrepreneur, a builder/developer,
and the director of a public interest law firm.
Since 1976, he has been a successful builder and developer, operating
single and multifamily housing in addition to actively building and
operating retirement and assisted living facilities in the upper Midwest. He
is president of Spectrum Care, LLC; Vision Management Services; and
Oak Tree Decorating Center.
He served as vice president of the Master Builders Association of
King and Snohomish Counties (the local affiliate of the National
Association of Homebuilders) and on the board of the Seattle-King County
Apartment Association.
He is founder and president of the Northwest
Legal Foundation, a nonprofit
public interest law firm. For
more than three decades, he has been involved in drafting proposed
laws and counseling elected officials in ways to remove burdensome
and unnecessary rules and regulations.
He served on the board of directors of both the Western Center for
Law and Religious Freedom and the Ward County (ND) Farm Bureau, and
he is a member of the Heritage Foundation National Legal Strategies
Forum.
Mr. Hale has a B.A. in Business Administration and a minor in Sociology
from the University of Washington (Seattle) and a J.D. from Gonzaga
University Law School in Spokane, Washington. He resides in Minot,
North Dakota, and maintains homes in Seattle, Washington, and Maui,
Hawaii.
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