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Gary A. Hengstler
Las Vegas, NV 89110
E-mail: **********@*****.***
Skype: ghengstler
Lawyer, Non-profit Administrator, Educator, Journalist, PR Consultant
LEGAL RESEARCH INDEPENDENT CONTRACTOR, Las Vegas, NV, November 2021 – April 2022.
Assisting attorneys with drafting legal documents, researching legal issues, and editing/proofreading documents before submitting to the courts.
TEACHER, Kenny C. Guinn STEM Academy, Las Vegas, Nevada, August 2020-November 2021.
After semi-retiring in Thailand, I returned to the US to live in Las Vegas where my son and his family reside after my Thai wife secured her Green Card. Given my background, I was hired last year to design and teach a specialty journalism course for middle school students. This year, because of the acute shortage in English teachers, I was asked to teach six grade English, but I re-retired because the joy in teaching was missing.
COSULTANT TO TSL & ASSOCIATES, Bangkok Thailand, May 2018 to November 2019.
After semi-retiring (again) after a nine-month position at the University of Tennessee system to assist them with their alumni magazine while they reorganized the department in 2017, I returned to Thailand to live with my wife, a retired Thai/English teacher. In seeking to obtain her visa to visit America, I retained the services of TSL & Associates to assist in this process. Upon inquiry of my past experiences, the firm asked me to be a consultant to review and help draft legal documents and policy statements for both the firm and the Bangkok Tigers, a team in the Thailand basketball league that the firm owns. This was a part-time position whereby am only periodically contacted for relatively small projects.
MANAGING EDITOR OF THE TENNESSEE ALUMNUS MAGAZINE, Knoxville, Tennessee, January 2017-October 2017
After moving to Thailand to retire with my wife in 2016, I returned home to visit family in November 2016. My brother, Dr. Dennis Hengstler, was the assistant vice president for institutional research for the University of Tennessee system. Before retiring in 2020. In discussions with UT System president and colleagues, he mentioned about my background, specifically journalism and law. At that point, the vice president for the systems communications department approached me with an offer to serve as literary managing editor of the Tennessee Alumnus magazine starting in January 2017 because that was the centennial year of the magazine and their managing editor had just abruptly resigned. Because she was in the process of reorganizing the entire communications department, she asked me to bridge the gap for three issues while they reorganized. I agreed and took a nine-month sabbatical to return to the United States.
ENGLISH TEACHER, WEST IREDELL HIGH SCHOOL, Statesville, NC, January 2014 to July 2014.
After semi-retiring in the fall of 2013, I accepted a position to teach English, replacing a teacher who decided not to return from maternity leave for the second semester of the school year. I enjoyed teaching, especially my Advance Placement classes and achieved success with them. I was offered a position for the 2014-2015 school year, but I declined because I had begun an online relationship with the Thai woman I eventually married and was contemplating spending much of 2015 in Thailand to determine if the relationship would lead to marriage and my subsequent moving to Thailand.
STRATEGIC COMMUNICATION ADVISOR TO AFGHANISTAN MINISTRY OF DEFENSE, Kabul, Afghanistan. January 2013 to September 2013.
I served as a DynCorp advisor to the Strategic Communication Directorate for the Afghanistan Ministry of Defense (MoD). The MoD Directorate serves to create the overall messaging strategy and themes of the Afghan National Army and was the coordinating unit for the Public Affairs Office, the Religious and Cultural Affairs Office, the Information Operations Office and the Intelligence Office at the Ministry and General Staff. The directorate’s coordinating council is chaired by the First Deputy Minister to create messages bolstering support for the Afghan National Army and to rebut the messages of the insurgents. At the expiration of my DynCorp contract, I declined to renew for a 5th year and began semi-retirement.
SENIOR PUBLIC AFFAIRS OFFICER MENTOR, Kabul Military Training Center, Kabul, Afghanistan. September 2011 - December 2012.
At the request of the Afghanistan Ministry of Defense, I returned to my original job in Afghanistan after six-month position as an advisor to the Supreme Court of Afghanistan. I was hired initially by MPRI as a civilian mentor, assisting the coalition forces at the Kabul Military Training Center to train and coach the Public Affairs Office that includes Major Muhammad Shapoor and his staff of four. Primarily, the operational elements were to take charge of media visits, camp newsletter, humanitarian assistance missions and other public affairs duties for the ANA. (Note: Department of Defense awarded contract to DynCorp in 2010, at which time I kept the same job, but for different employer).
JUDICIAL ASSISTANCE SECTION LEADER – JUSTICE SECTOR SUPPORT PROGRAM,
Kabul, Afghanistan, March 2011 – September 2011.
Under a contract awarded to Pacific Architects and Engineering Inc. (PAE) by the U.S. State Department, I was section leader for judicial training and reform for the Supreme Court of Afghanistan. I oversaw two U.S. legal advisors, three Afghan legal advisors, three translators and an administrative assistant creating training programs for Afghan judges and court administrative staff. I recommended areas for judicial reform and assisted in implementation. My duties extended throughout judicial system -- primary, appellate and supreme courts. Also, I was one of six internal directors of the Judicial Sector Support Program, reporting to the Program Manager.
SENIOR PUBLIC AFFAIRS OFFICER MENTOR, Kabul Military Training Center, Kabul, Afghanistan. June 2009 to March 2011.
(Note: See description above).
DIRECTOR, THE DONALD W. REYNOLDS NATIONAL CENTER FOR THE COURTS AND MEDIA AT THE NATIONAL JUDICIAL COLLEGE, Reno, Nevada. August 2000 to June 2009.
I was asked by the American Bar Association’s (ABA) National Judicial College (in partnership with the Reynolds School of Journalism at the University of Nevada) to create and administer its new center to initiate educational programs for judges and journalists. This center arose out of high-profile trials and the need to ease tensions between the judiciary and the media over First and Sixth Amendment conflicts. My duties were to develop the curricula and to create/teach courses for judges and journalists to help each learn more about each other. I also served as an advisor to judges overseeing high profile cases, and conducted numerous workshops and presentations to local, state, and regional judicial and media associations.
EDITOR AND PUBLISHER, ABA JOURNAL, AND EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF THE AMERICAN BAR ASSOCIATION. Chicago, Ill. June 1989 to August 2000.
As Editor and Publisher, I directed all publishing aspects including editorial, advertising, production and business departments. Supervise a staff of 30 with a budget of $9 million. I was one of nine Senior Managers of the American Bar Association, reporting to the Executive Director and the Board of Governors. Attended all meetings of the Board of Governors.
The ABA Journal is the largest legal magazine in the world (circulation: 431,000) and is the awardwinning flagship publication of the American Bar Association. While I was Editor and Publisher, the ABA Journal was listed among the top 25 "most influential publications" in America (Erdos and Morgan 1992-1998) and received numerous awards.
NEWS EDITOR, ABA Journal, Chicago, Illinois. May 1986 to June 1989.
Before being selected to head the magazine, I directed news section, supervising three reporters covering the legal news in the U.S. I also wrote several articles for the magazine. I created the ABA Annual Meeting newspaper providing on-the-spot coverage of the meetings and generating ad revenue that more than covered the costs.
EDITOR, The Texas Lawyer, Austin, Texas. January 1985 to May 1986.
I created, implemented and directed first weekly legal newspaper serving Texas attorneys. I administered all editorial, circulation, business and production phases of the paper and advised on advertising phase. I My duties included writing news stories, features and columns; editing and designing the paper each week; assigning stories to reporters and freelance writers; digesting all Supreme Court decisions for "Weekly Summary" section. The job also entailed speaking engagements on behalf of newspaper.
The Texas Lawyer is a weekly legal newspaper with a circulation of approximately 5,000. I it published by Butterworth Legal Publisher
ATTORNEY, admitted to practice in Ohio courts and admitted to practice in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio at Cleveland, May 1984. Admitted to practice in Nevada courts in 2006. Resigned my position as an attorney in Nevada when I moved to Thailand and placed my Ohio license on inactive status.
Blaszak, Shilling, Coey & Bennett, Elyria, Ohio. May 1984 to January 1985. My primary responsibilities were general practice cases including landlordtenant, deceptive trade practice, personal injury, probate and real property claims both in and out of court.
NEWS EDITOR, The ChronicleTelegram, Elyria, Ohio. September 1973 to January 1985. Daily newspaper. Circulation 40,000.
As second in the command of the editorial department, I directed the editing and layout of all news sections; supervised seven copy editors and directed the editorial conversion to a computerized newsroom. I also designed newsroom floor plan to accommodate the mainframe set up. I attended American Press Institute as participant in graphics and design course, 1980, Reston, Virginia and subsequently redesigned entire ChronicleTelegram.
LAW CLERK, Blaszak, Shilling, Coey & Bennett, Elyria, Ohio. September 1982 to November 1983.
MANAGING EDITOR, The Commercial Review, Portland, Indiana. January 1970 to September 1973. Daily Newspaper. Circulation 7,000.
SPORTS EDITOR, TriCity Journal, Yorktown, Indiana. September 1968 to July 1969. Weekly newspaper. Circulation 3,500.
EDUCATION
JURIS DOCTOR, August 1983. ClevelandMarshall College of Law, Cleveland State University,
Cleveland, Ohio.
BACHELOR OF SCIENCE, June 1969, Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana. Journalism major; speech education minor. (Licensed to teach in Indiana 19691974).
AWARDS, ACHIEVEMENTS
ABA Journal: First Place Gold Award for editorial excellence, Association Magazine Category
-- Folio Magazine Competition, 1999.
ABA Journal: First Place Gold Award for editorial excellence, Legal Magazine Category
-- Folio Magazine Competition, 1998.
ABA Journal: Thirty awards for editorial and graphic excellence, 1998
-- most in the magazine's history.
Best News Series: Gary A. Hengstler, "Bosnia: Out of the Rubble," 1997
-- American Society of Business Press Editors.
Best News Series: Gary A. Hengstler, "Emerging Law in Palestine," 1995
-- American Society of Business Press Editors.
Best Feature Series: Gary A. Hengstler, "Troubled Justice," 1995
-- American Society of Business Press Editors.
Best News Series: Gary A. Hengstler, "Attorneys for the Damned," 1987
-- American Society of Business Press Editors.
Co-counsel in precedent-setting case in Ohio law: Reichert v. Ingersoll, 18 Ohio St. 3d 220, 1985.
-- wrote the prevailing appellant's brief; prepared the appeal to the Ohio Supreme Court.
Won several state, national awards for newspaper writing, reporting and design, 1970-85.
Inducted into the Ball State University Journalism Hall of Fame in 1999
Was granted the last interview with Justice Thurgood Marshall.
Was granted the first interview with Yasser Arafat after signing Oslo Peace Accord
Member of the International Network to Promote the Rule of Law. (INPROL)
CONSULTANT TRAINING PROJECTS AND SEMINARS
Oct. 16—Oct. 31, 2007: Court and Media Workshop, Uzhgorod, Dnipropetrovsk, Sevastopol, Ukraine, Ukrainian-American Judicial project by Chemonics in a USAID program.
Sept. 28 – 29, 2007: “The Court of Public Opinion: The Practice and Ethics of Trying Cases in the Media,” televised by C-Span -- Duke University Law School panel on issues raised by the false Duke Lacrosse team accusations.
Jan. 22– Feb. 3, 2007: Court and Media Workshop, Kiev, Chernivtsi, Kharkiv, Ukraine, Ukrainian-American Judicial project by Chemonics in a USAID program.
Dec. 7-Dec. 16, 2006: Court and Media Workshop, Hong Kong, China; Judicial training project Chongqing, China, sponsored by the Hong Kong Journalist Federation and Southwest University in Chongqing.
Jan. 10– Jan. 23, 2006: Court and Media Workshop, Skopje and Ohrid, Republic of Macedonia, Macedonian-American Judicial Project by DPK Consulting in a USAID program.
Feb. 1- Feb. 26. 2004: Court and Media Workshop, Moscow and Samara, Russian-American Judicial project by Chemonics in a USAID program.
Nov. 10-11, 2003: “Transparency in the Administration of Justice” in Mexico City, Mexico. I was asked to present the U.S. perspective on media access to judicial information at the national seminar sponsored by the newspaper Reforma.
Feb. 1 – Feb 8, 2003: Court and Media Workshop, Moscow and Vladimir, Russia, Russian-American Judicial project by Chemonics in a USAID program.
Dec. 9– Dec. 14, 2002: Series of Court and Media Workshops in Argentina for judges and journalists. This was requested by the U.S. State Department, receiving the highest rating in the evaluation.
August 8, 2002: “Terror on Trial — Media Issues for the Judiciary,” a two-hour program provided by our Center for the Annual Meeting of the American Bar Association, which was televised live by C-Span that examined special media concerns from the trials of defendants in the first World Trade Center bombing in 1993 and of defendants in the 1998 bombings of the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. The panel included the Hon. Michael B. Mukasey( later attorney General), Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, who presided over the trial of Omar
Abdel-Rahman, the blind sheik charged in the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center, Patrick Fitzgerald, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois, who prosecuted terrorism defendants in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing and the 1998 bombings of U.S. embassies, Anthony L. Ricco Esq., noted New York trial lawyer who was defense counsel for the defendants in the 1998 bombings of U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, and other notable panelists.
June 20-22, 2002: Hemisphere Summit on Justice and Freedom of the Press in the Americas, Washington, D.C. Our Center co-sponsored this conference of all the Chief Justices of the Supreme Courts in North and South America. I was the opening dinner speaker, and we provided most of the agenda materials.
May 24-June 2, 2002: Court and Media Workshop, Moscow and Rostov on Don, Russia, Russian-American Judicial project by Chemonics in a USAID program.
PUBLICATIONS
“Sheppard v. Maxwell Revisited—Do the Traditional Rules Work for Nontraditional Media?” Law and Contemporary Problems, Duke University College of Law, Vol. 71, Autumn 2008, No. 4
“Pressing Engagements: Courting Better Relationships Between Judges and Journalists,” Syracuse Law Review, Syracuse University College of Law, Vol. 56, No. 3, 2006.
“Symbiosis, Suspicion and (Sometimes) Synergy — an overview of the relationship between U.S. /courts and the media,” an essay written for the Hemisphere Summit on Justice and Freedom of the Press in the Americas, Washington, D.C., June 20-22, 2002.
“Making Work for You,” ISBN: 1-57073-953-6, (2001) published by the American Bar Association’s Career. For lawyers and supervisors on effectively managing people.
“Survival of the Fittest — Will you publish or perish? In the battle for readers, complacency may be your biggest enemy,” Association Publishing, March/ April 1998, Society of National Association Publications.
“Legal Journalism Ethics” Ethical & Policy Issues Perspectives on the Professions, Vol. 14, No. 1, Aug. 1994, Center for the Study of Ethics in the Professions, Illinois Institute of Technology.
Salary Equity Studies: The State of the Art. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Association of the Study of Higher Education, Washington, D.C., March 1982 (with John A. Muffo and Dennis D. Hengstler)
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