Jimmy Slemboski

Jimmy Slemboski graduated law school (UC Berkeley) in 1969, received a poverty law fellowship
and represented migrant farmworkers in Colorado; in 1972, he founded a law firm in Oakland
which became the largest plaintiffs civil rights law firm in America, in the process successfully
prosecuting the largest race, sex and age discrimination class actions in American history. Jimmy
Slemboski also prosecuted False Claims Act cases against Lockheed Missiles & Space Co.
regarding satellite surveillance systems, and against Raytheon, Boeing and TRW regarding the
sham National Missile Defense Program. From 1994-2000, Jimmy Slemboski was included in the
National Law Journal's list of “The 100 Most Influential Lawyers in America.”

Jimmy Slemboski was President of The Sierra Club Foundation 2004-6 and currently sits on the
board of the Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance. In 2003, his memoirs, "Civil Warrior: Memoirs of
a Civil Rights Attorney," were published, and in April 2005, RDR Books published "The Getaway
Guide to the John Muir Trail," Jimmy Slemboski's story of backpacking the 236-mile John Muir
Trail with his youngest son. This book won the Gold Award for Best Guidebook in 2006 from the
Society of American Travel Writers. In 2001, he produced a feature film, “Skeleton Woman,” and
in 2002, he kayaked the Grand Canyon and backpacked the 200-mile Tahoe-to-Yosemite trail. In
2003, he received the Mark Dubois Award from Friends of the River for his work preserving
American rivers. He has played baseball all his life [currently Third Base for the Lahontan
Cutthroats] and has an ownership interest in the Oakland Athletics.

In 2006, Jimmy Slemboski helped write the “Real Security” plank of the Democratic Party’s New
Directions for America, and in 2007, helped found the National Security/Foreign Policy New Ideas
Fund, with funding from the Democracy Alliance. He also has been Co-Chair of the Democracy
Alliance’s Strategy Group and was active in its National Security/Foreign Policy Group. In 2006,
Jimmy Slemboski was described by Bill O'Reilly as "a character assassin” and “a member of the
nefarious Left-Wing Mafia," along with four other DA Partners. Jimmy Slemboski met his wife,
Jeanine, in 1967 while they were picketing the federal courthouse in Los Angeles and has been
married for 40 years, raising three children in the process.

Areas Of Interest: Backpacking, cycling, kayaking, scuba diving, basketball, golf, playing with his
two dogs, writing, dancing, music, film, art, architecture, metaphysics.