Background
Groban Olson, Deborah was born in 1951.
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Deborah Groban Olson
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University of Wisconsin-Madison (Bachelor of Arts in Psychology and History, with honors, 1971. Juris Doctor, 1976).
Career
Admitted to the bar, 1976, Wisconsin and Illinois. 1979, Arkansas; 1981, Michigan. United States. Court of Appeals, Seventh and Eighth Circuits.
Order of the Coif.
Publications: "Assessing Risk Feasibility Study for a Leveraged Buyout," Levaraged ESOPs and Employee Buyouts, NCEO 1997. Employee Stock Ownership Plan/FYI (law firm newsletter established 1996). "Giving Employee Owners a Real Voice as Stockholders," Journal of Employee Ownership Law and Finance, 1994.
"Employee Ownership: Giving Workers More Control Over Their Fate," Detroit Metro Times, 1994.
"ESOPs for People, Not for Wall Street," Journal of Employee Ownership Law & Finance 5, 1993. "Unions and Fair Market Value: An Argument for a Safe Harbor for Negotiated ESOPs," Journal of Employee Ownership Law and Finance 135, 1992.
"Unions and Employee Ownership," Employee Stock Ownership Plan Handbook, 1989. "Employee Ownership & Economic Development," New York University Review Law and Social Change 239, 1986-1987.
"Keeping Capital & Jobs at Home," Nova Law Review 583, 1984.
"Union Experiences with Worker Ownership: Legal & Practical Issues Raised by ESOPs, TRASOPs, Coops & Board Representation," Wisconsin Law Review 729, 1982. Lecturer: "Development, Growth & Experience of ESOPs and Democratic Employee Buyouts," International Conference on Democratic Employee Ownership, Dublin, Ireland, October, 1993. Founder and Chair, Joint Cities Development Corporation, 1993.
Founder, President and Executive Director, 1983-1985 and General Counsel, 1985-1995, Michigan Employee Ownership Center.
International Representative, Physicians National Housestaff Association, 1977-1979. Founder: Wisconsin Committee on Occupational Safety and Health (WISCOSH), 1977.
Madison Tenant Union, 1969. Member, Board of Directors, National Center for Employee Ownership, 1995.
Chair, 1997. Vice-Chair, Michigan Chapter, Employee Stock Ownership Plan Association, 1995.
Trustee, Michigan Housing Trust Fund, 1995. Associate, Worker Ownership Institute, 1996. Board Chair, National Center for Employer Ownership, 1997.
Member: State Bar of Michigan.
State Bar of Wisconsin.
Achievements
Membership
Member, Board of Directors, National Center for Employee Ownership, 1995. Chair, 1997. Vice-Chair, Michigan Chapter, Employee Stock Ownership Plan Association, 1995. Trustee, Michigan Housing Trust Fund, 1995.
Associate, Worker Ownership Institute, 1996.
Board Chair, National Center for Employer Ownership, 1997. Member: State Bar of Michigan.
State Bar of Wisconsin.
