She served as a Commissioner on the Fair Political Practices Commission for six years following her appointment to the position by Governor Brown in 1977. She has retired after practicing political and election law in Southern California since 1989, initially with Simmons & McAndrews, which merged with Bell & Hiltachk in 1993. He is a graduate of Stanford University and Stanford Law School.Ĭolleen was a founding partner of Bell, McAndrews & Hiltachk, LLP. He served as an advisor to political parties in the historic 1994 South African election. Kennedy Library and Learning Center in Sacramento, California. He is an officer and director of the Ronald Reagan Centennial Capitol Foundation and the Sacramento Federal Judicial Library and Learning Center Foundation which supports the Justice Anthony M. He served as a national lawyers co-chairman for the Romney and McCain Presidential campaigns and state lawyers chairman for the Dole and two Bushes Presidential campaigns. Supreme Court, the California Supreme Court and federal and state trial and appellate courts. He has litigated cases on constitutional issues concerning campaign finance and election law in the U.S. He is a member of the American Bar Association’s Standing Committee on Election Law. Chuck was the founding Chairman of the California Political Attorneys Association. He is a past president of the Republican National Lawyers Association, Washington, DC, and currently serves as its general counsel. He has also represented the Republican National Committee, the Republican National Senatorial Committee and the National Republican Congressional Committee in litigation and political law matters. He has provided legal advice and representation to three former California Governors, two Presidential candidates, numerous California state constitutional officers, Congressional, State Senate and Assembly leaders and candidates. He served as general counsel to the California Republican Party from 1981 to 1993 and from 1998 to 2017. He is a nationally-recognized expert on federal and state campaign finance and election laws. He has practiced political and election law exclusively since 1980. Situating the city within its larger political and historical contexts, Thomas Bell has produced a book that comes as close as any to capturing the spirit of the intriguing, dynamic, troubled, and endlessly confounding Kathmandu.Chuck Bell is the founding partner of Bell, McAndrews & Hiltachk, LLP. And the book is rich in anecdotes about Kathmandu’s inhabitants, their superstitions and their attitudes towards caste, class, religion and region.Ī wonderful book that speaks to a wide audience. Bell, who studied at the Courtauld Institute of Art, trenchantly and colourfully describes how foreigners stripped Nepal of its cultural treasures in the latter decades of the last century. ‘An Englishman who arrived in the country in 2002 as a freelance journalist and married a Nepali, Bell is an engaging guide with the dry sense of humour, patience and empathy essential for those working in the corrupt and crowded cities of south Asia. ‘ sprawling history and memoir of Nepal and its fast-growing capital’ – Jason Burke, The Guardian South Asia correspondent A genuine must-read for any visitor to the city, to Nepal, or indeed to the sub-continent.’ Kings, Maoist guerillas, mountaineers, demonstrators, poets, psychopathic princes and politicians all make for a tale as colourful as a local market. In this lucid, clever, thorough and beautifully written book, Tom Bell does this for us, recounting the gripping history of the fascinating city with equal measures of verve and care. Few make the effort to look beyond the mountains and stupas, the forests and elephants. ‘Kathmandu, like the country of which it is the capital, is much visited but much misunderstood. A splendidly eccentric and enjoyable first book’ Looping through centuries and slaloming between journalism and history, memoir, mythology and gossip, Tom Bell has written a portrait of Kathmandu like no other, taking us from Manjushree to the Maoists via witches, colonial Orientalists, LSD cults, spies wars and old Serge Gainsbourg movies. ‘A wonderfully discursive account of the personal discovery of a great city. Tom Bell has thought through the history and contemporary reality of Kathmandu, and has written a great, subtle book, one as shadowed as Kathmandu’s alleys and as brilliant as its midday squares’ ‘A narrative of an enchanting and troubling complexity. ‘Thank you for all the pleasure your fascinating book gave me.’
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