JACK FLANIGAN, Esquire

Jack Flanigan is one of the patriarchs in the world of California’s public affairs and political strategists. During the last three decades, he has been a key political advisor in numerous statewide campaigns at the presidential, gubernatorial and US senate levels. As a founder of California Strategies and a member of the Flanigan Law Firm, he has been an advisor to some of the largest and most influential companies in the country.
Over the course of his career, Flanigan has developed a special expertise in the management of real estate issues impacted by the public process. He is a former Executive Director and subsequently a board member of the California Housing Council, a coalition of the state’s largest owners and operators of multi-family housing. In the early 1980s, while working for R&B Development Company in Los Angeles he was responsible for the development of industrial office parks in Texas. And from 1985 to 1992, he was Vice President of Public Affairs and Government Relations of the Irvine Company, one of the nation’s largest land developers and community planners.

In addition to his other professional activities, Flanigan also has been actively involved with the creation of a number of private sector start-up companies. He was an original shareholder and later member of the board of directors of SuperShuttle International which has grown to become the nation’s largest shared-ride airport ground transportation service. Additionally, he is a co-founder of Interactive Care, a Salt Lake City-based telemedicine company that offers a Web-based service which enables physicians and other health care providers to conduct off-site consultations using a laptop and a commercial grade video camera. He is also the co-holder of a U.S. patent related to new mold detection technology.

Flanigan has held key leadership and strategic posts in numerous state and national campaigns. In 1975, he managed Pete Wilson’s successful re-election campaign for Mayor of San Diego and went on to serve in senior capacities in all of Wilson’s campaigns for Governor and the U.S. Senate. In 1992, he was one of two state co-chairmen of the Bush/Quayle California campaign. He also was a member of the national finance committee for Bush/Quayle in 1988 and 1992.

An important component of Flanigan’s career has been his active participation in community organizations. He is the former Executive Director of the Coro Foundation, a nationally recognized public affairs training organization. Later, he also served on Coro’s National Board of Governors. In 1991, he was appointed by President George H.W. Bush as a member of the President’s Commission on White House Fellowships. He is a founding board member of the California Mentor Foundation and serves as a Director Emeritus on the board of Athletes and Entertainers for Kids, a non-profit organization headquartered in California. In March of 2012, Governor Jerry Brown appointed Flanigan to the Little Hoover Commission, an independent state government oversight agency.

Flanigan is a graduate of San Diego State University where he served as student body president. He received a direct commission into the United States Army’s Medical Service Corps and served as aide-de-camp to the Commanding General of Brooke General Hospital in Fort Sam Houston, Texas. During his tour in Vietnam, he was a member of the special USAMSC team that established the first in-country drug detoxification centers. He is a recipient of both the Bronze Star and the Army Commendation Medal.

Flanigan received his Juris Doctor degree from Boalt Hall at the University of California, Berkeley. He has been an active member of the California State Bar since 1975.

Flanigan has two grown sons. He resides in Granite Bay and Palm Desert, California.