Background
II, Walter Harrison Rockenstein Son of Walter Harrison and Martha Lee (Morris) R.
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Walter Harrison Rockenstein II
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Bachelor cum laude, College of Wooster, 1965; Bachelor of Laws, Yale University, 1968.
Career
Special assistant attorney general, chief antitrust division, Office of Minnesota Attorney General, 1970-1972;
associate, Head & Truhn, 1972-1973;
alderman 11th ward, Minneapolis City Council, 1974-1983;
associate, Faegre & Benson, Minneapolis, 1984-1985;
partner, Faegre & Benson, Minneapolis, since 1986. Member Capital Long-Range Improvements Committee, 1974-1982, Governor's Economics Roundtable, 1980-1982, Hennepin County Waste Disposal & Energy Recovery Advisory Committee, 1976-1977. Chairman development strategies committee League of Minnesota Cities,1979-1980, board directors, 1980-1983.
Minneapolis delegate Metro. Aircraft Sound Abatement Council, 1977-1990, chairman, 1982-1990. Member aviation subcommittee of transportation technical advising committee Metro.
Council, 1977-1983; member airport noise advisory board Minnesota Pollution Control Agency, board directors noise committee, 1982-1985, member tech.adv. committee, 1990. Advising committee National League of Cities, steering committee Environmental Quality, 1975-1979, vice chairman, 1976, chairman, 1978, steering committee Energy, Environment and Natural Resources, 1980-1983, Energy Task Force, 1977-1979, National Urban Policy Committee, 1978. Member Noise Task Force, National League of Cities/National Association of Counties, 1977-1980.
Regional director National Organization to Insure a Sound-Controlled Environment, 1976-1990, vice president legal affairs, 1983-1990. Consultant group nuclear waste management, unites states department Energy, 1978.
Achievements
Membership
Elder Westminster Presbyterian Church, 1975-1980, 95-, trustee, 1982-1987, chairstewardship committee, 1989, chair pastor nominating committee, 1992-1994, co-chair building centennial committee. Board directors Loring Nicollet-Bethlehem Cmty. Centers, Inc., since 1984, president, 1988-1992.
Board directors University of Minnesota Underground Space Center Advisory Board, 1985-1995, chair, 1988-1995. Board directors Minnesota Center for Book Arts, 1988-1993. Committee member Cub Scout pact 196, Diamond Lake Luth Church, 1988-1991, committee chair, 1990-1991.
Alumni trustee, alumni board directors The College of Wooster, 1990-1996. Committee member Boy Scout Troop 187. Board dirs.Minn. Safety Council, since 1997.
Member Minnesota State Bar Association (county member environmental and natural resourceslaw section since 1997), Hennepin County Bar Association, Delta Sigma Rho-Tau Kappa Alpha, Phi Sigma Alpha.
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Married Jodell Lynn Steinke, July 29, 1972. Children: Martha Liv, Andrew Harrison.
