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2001-01-01 |
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| Name | Robert "Bob" Klitzkie |
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Yigo, Guam , United States |
| Email | None |
| Website | None |
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December 20, 1938
(86 years)
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| Contributor | RBH |
| Last Modifed | Scott³
Jul 06, 2009 05:31am |
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| Info | Senator Robert Klitzkie is a (recovering) lawyer admitted to practice in Guam, California, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, Federated States of Micronesia and the U.S. Supreme Court.
He graduated Magna Cum Laude from the University of New Mexico School of Law in 1974, was inducted into the Order of the Coif (his staff has no idea what that is) and was accorded other academic honors (just trust us on this; there are too many to list here).
Bob was in the private practice of law as a member of the firm Brooks and Klitzkie, P.C., from 1974 to 1985.
Bob retired from the position of Director of Education (when school started on time and the textbooks were ordered early) in February 1995 having guided the more than 4000 employee department for a year.
Thirty-one years earlier, Bob began his government service as a social studies and history teacher at George Washington High School. While serving as a teacher, Bob earned a Masters Degree in education at the University of Guam. Bob was one of the first members of the Guam Federation of Teachers and served a couple terms as sergeant at arms. As chief negotiator for the GFT in the first board-union contract in 1970, Bob played a major role in bringing collective bargaining to GovGuam workers. Bob is proud of the provision in the first contract that took teachers out of the enforcement of the English-only-at-school rule.
In between educational stints, Bob served in the area of public safety having been the legal advisor for the Guam Police Department, Deputy Director Corrections and Director of Corrections (not a single prisoner escaped on his watch – not a single one).
Bob has also had experience in the legislative and judicial branches of the government of Guam. Bob served as legislative counsel to the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Guam Legislatures, minority counsel in the Twentieth Guam Legislature and Clerk of the Superior Court of Guam.
Part time work included teaching various graduate and undergraduate courses at the University of Guam and the Guam Community College, including School Law and Criminal Law.
Bob hosted the popular Sunday night TV show, Cable Forum, 1995-1997; in 1966 he served as a radio newscaster for KUAM radio.
Bob was born on Dec. 20, 1938, in the metropolis of Elkhorn, Wisconsin (pop. 2,900), and is a 1963 graduate of Wisconsin State University at Whitewater. Wanting to see the world, Bob joined the Marines and was sent to the far away exotic location of California. Seeing enough of California, Bob left the Marines after one hitch.
After the Marines, more than 40 years ago, Bob applied to school districts all over the nation, accepting a teaching position from the district that was the farthest away from Wisconsin – Guam.
Bob packed his bag (singular, as in one bag), boarded a 707 and flew to Guam.
Bob hasn’t stopped traveling. He has been to Europe, South America, Australia, New Zealand, Nepal, Tibet, the USSR, Iceland, Borneo, New Guinea, Iwo Jima, Bali a couple times, and many other exotic and interesting spots.
Ten years service in the Army National Guard ended in 1992 when Bob reached his mandatory removal age (Bob’s older than he looks). Bob’s last rank held was Lieutenant Colonel.
He is married to the former Lourdes Palomo –professor emerita at the University of Guam. Bob and Lou are the parents of one daughter and are grandparents four times over.
Bob currently serves as the Vice President of Pacific Security Alarm, Inc. (a part time job). He was the General Manager of PSA during 1996 through 1998. (He has no ownership interest in PSA. A media report stating that he did was incorrect.)
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