Robert Flanders

American attorney

Bob Flanders

Associate Justice of the Rhode Island Supreme Court
In office
1996–2004
Succeeded by| William P. Robinson III
Personal details
Born|

Robert G. Flanders Jr.

(1949-07-09) July 9, 1949 (age 76)
North Massapequa, New York, U.S.
Political party| Republican
Spouse| Ann Flanders
Children| 3
Education| Bachelor of Arts
Juris Doctor
Alma mater| Brown University
Harvard University

Robert G. Flanders Jr. (born July 9, 1949) is an American attorney who is a partner at Whelan Corrente & Flanders.[1] He is also the founder of Flanders and Medeiros.

Previously, Flanders served as an Associate Justice of the Rhode Island Supreme Court from 1996 to 2004.[2]

## Early life and education

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Flanders was born in 1949 in North Massapequa, Long Island, New York and grew up in a middle-class family.[3] His father was a salesman while his mother worked in fast food restaurants.[3] He received his early education from Chaminade High School in Mineola, New York.[4]

For his college education, he went to Brown University and graduated magna cum laude in 1971 with a major in English.[3][5][6] During his college years at Brown, he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa and received a prize for an essay he wrote on the classicism of Henry Fielding in Tom Jones.[3]

As a law student at Harvard, Flanders played minor league baseball for the Detroit Tigers and served as an editor of the Harvard Law Record.[7] He graduated from law school in 1974.[4]

## Career

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In 2004, after eight years of service as a justice of the Rhode Island Supreme Court, he resigned from the post and joined Hinckley, Allen & Snyder as a partner.[8]

In 2011, Governor Lincoln Chafee appointed Flanders as the Central Falls Receiver, tasked with addressing the city's financial distress.[4]

As an academic, Flanders has taught constitutional law and judicial process courses at the Roger Williams University Law School, as a distinguished visiting professor, and at Brown University, as an adjunct assistant professor of law and public policy.[4][6]

## 2018 U.S. Senate campaign

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Main article: 2018 United States Senate election in Rhode Island

Flanders won the Republican party nomination, defeating the only other candidate on the ballot, Rocky De La Fuente, a businessman who was seeking to get on the Senate ballot in several states in 2018.[9]

As the Republican Party nominee, he participated in the 2018 election for US Senator from Rhode Island. He lost the election to Democratic incumbent, Sheldon Whitehouse.[10]

## Personal life

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Flanders grew up in a middle class household and is the oldest of seven children.[3] He is a strong advocate of separation of powers.[3]

He and his wife Ann live in East Greenwich, Rhode Island. They have three children.[11]

## Bibliography

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* Flanders, Jr., Robert G. (2005). Rhode Island Evidence Manual. LexisNexis.
* Flanders, Jr., Robert G.; Conley, Patrick (2007). The Rhode Island Constitution: A Reference Guide. Praeger.
* Flanders, Jr., Robert G.; Michaelis, Ron C.; Wulff, Paula H. (2008). A Litigator's Guide to DNA: From the Laboratory to the Courtroom. Academic Press.
* Flanders, Jr., Robert G. et al. (2017). A Practical Guide to Land Use Law in Rhode Island
* Flanders, Jr., Robert G. et al. (2022). Rhode Island Civil and Appellate Procedure with Commentaries. Thomson/Reuters.

## References

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1. ^ "Flanders Joins RI Center for Freedom & Prosperity's Board of Directors". GoLocalProv.
2. ^ "Democrat Raimondo, Republican Fung sail to victory in Rhode Island Gubernatorial primary". ABC News.
3. ^ a b c d e f Gregg, Katherine. "Robert Flanders readies Senate challenge to Sheldon Whitehouse". The Providence Journal.
4. ^ a b c d "RI.gov: Rhode Island Government". www.ri.gov.
5. ^ Gregg, Katherine. "Former Supreme Court Justice Flanders announces run for U.S. Senate | video". The Providence Journal.
6. ^ a b "Flanders '71: from minor league baseball to a federal bench recommendation". The Brown Daily Herald.
7. ^ "Bob Flanders Minor Leagues Statistics & History". Baseball-Reference.com.
8. ^ Alicia Korney (September 11, 2004). "Former Supreme Court judge steps down to join law firm". Providence Business News. Retrieved October 22, 2018.
9. ^ "RI.gov: Election Results". www.ri.gov.
10. ^ "RI.gov: Election Results". www.ri.gov.
11. ^ "Document unavailable". ProQuest.

## External links

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* Flanders Senate campaign website

Party political offices

Preceded by

Barry Hinckley

|  Republican nominee for U.S. Senator from Rhode Island
(Class 1)
2018 | Succeeded by

Patricia Morgan

Authority control databases

International|

* VIAF

National|

* Germany