My Detailed Bio

Sheldon Greene is a partner in the three lawyer San Francisco law firm of Greene & Allison.  The firm works with over 40 credit unions on the West Coast.  He is also Executive Vice President and Director of Oak Creek Energy Systems, Inc. a Southern California wind energy operator and development company that is responsible for the consummation of the largest ever wind energy power purchase agreement; 1550 MW to deliver energy to Southern California Edison. Oak Creek is a subsidiary of Marubeni, a multi-national Japanese trading company. He is a member of the advisory board of the Great Lakes Energy Institute at Case Western Reserve Univ. School of Engineering.

Education:

Graduated Magna Cum Lauda, Phi Beta Kappa, Omicron Delta Kappa, Delta Sigma Rho, Order of the Coif, Case Western Reserve University, undergraduate and law, fifth in Grand National Debate Tournament, Law Review Editor, Winner Dunmore Moot Court Competition, Contracts Prize.

Work History:

Law Clerk, Court of Common Pleas,

Warden of Insurance of the State of Ohio, attorney in first successful state challenge to increased Blue Cross insurance rates,

House Counsel to Pennsylvania Life Insurance Co.,

War Against Poverty: As Directing Attorney of the Modesto office and later General Counsel, of California Rural Legal Assistance; he successfully brought suits against the Regan administration that blocked massive cuts in medical assistance to low income and working poor,  a suit requiring implementation of minimum wages for women and minors, suit blocking importation of braceros, a suit challenging abuses of non resident worker law, drafted legislation and secured bi-partisan sponsorship of the first law in United States to penalize the knowing employment of illegal entrants in the country signed into law by California Governor Reagan,

Cultural: He was a member of the founding board of the New Israel Fund and served as its first secretary. He lived in Israel for almost two years before the 1, studied Hebrew in Jerusalem, worked on the National Archeological Survey in the Negev and a Kibbutz in the Gallil and wrote a novel.

Political: He has been a member of the Nancy Pelosi initiated San Francisco based Red to Blue group since 2005 and has contributed to key House and Senate campaigns as identified by the leadership. He also contributed to and did some telephone work on the Dean and subsequently Kerry campaigns, as well as the McNerny House campaign.

Political and Policy: Greene was a member of the Obama National Policy Teams for Energy and Immigration and was active in working up both policies. He became a supporter of Barak Obama just  before he announced his campaign for President, contributing the legal maximum for the primary.

Publications

Fiction

Lost and Found, a novel, Random House,

Burnt Umber, a novel, Leap Frog Press,

Prodigal Sons, a novel, BookSurge

Articles

Law Review:

Promised Land: Distribution of Public Land by the United States  5 Ecology Law Quarterly  4 at  707-751 (1976) University of California, Berkeley

Public Agency Distortion of Congressional Will, 40 The George Washington Law Review #3 March 1972, pp 440-464

Immigration Law and Rural Poverty-The Problems of the Illegal Entrant,   1969 Duke Law Journal #3  pp475-494

Cause of Action and the Statute of Limitation, Koenigberg v. California, 9 Survey of Ohio Law, 10 Western Reserve Law Review

Periodicals and books

Man in the Middle, Liability of California Insurance Agents and Brokers, Underwriters Report, April 8, 1965

Wetbacks, Growers, and Poverty, The Nation, Oct 20 1969

CRLA Pest or Pesticide? California Farmer Sept 20, 1969

Somebody is Always Offended , The Nation, Dec. 14, 1970

Is Lawcare Next? The Nation, Dec. 11, 1972

Employment of Illegal Entrants Los Angeles Times, May 25 1972

Corporate Accountability and the Family Farm, in Radical Agriculture, edited by Richard Merrill, Harper Colophon 1976

Appellate Cases

CA3     Morris v. Williams, 67 Cal. 2d 733, 433 P.2d 697, 63 Cal. Rptr. 689 (Cal. 11/20/1967)

CA3     Rivera v. Division of Industrial Welfare, 265 Cal. App. 2d 576, 71 Cal. Rptr. 739 (Cal.App.Dist.3 09/10/1968)

CA3     Roberts v. Superior Court of Stanislaus County, 264 Cal. App. 2d 235, 70 Cal. Rptr. 226 (Cal.App.Dist.5 07/22/1968)

Gooch v. Clark, 433 F.2d 74 (9th Cir. 09/08/1970)

CA3     Zumwalt v. Trustees of California State Colleges, 33 Cal. App. 3d 665, 109 Cal. Rptr. 344 (Cal.App.Dist.3 07/25/1973)

C09     Salazar v. San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District, 538 F.2d 269 (9th Cir. 04/22/1976)

C09     Bowker v. Morton, 541 F.2d 1347 (9th Cir. 08/31/1976)

CA3     Garnel v. Bunzel, 68 Cal. App. 3d 999, 137 Cal. Rptr. 627 (Cal.App.Dist.1 04/11/1977)

CA3     Meyers v. Los Angeles County Probation Department, 78 Cal. App. 3d 309, 144 Cal. Rptr. 186 (Cal.App.Dist.2 03/07/1978)

Personal: Resides, Berkeley CA. Married to Judy Greene a psychotherapist. One daughter, Talia an artist, married living in Philadelphia. He sings baritone in the Oakland Symphony Chorus, gardens, writes novels and non fiction, and plays singles tennis. He and Judy collect art, travel a lot, like good food and wine, and take in a lot of cultural events. He reads the NYTimes and the Economist for information and is a self confessed policy wonk with opinions on most everything.

What Editors have said about Sheldon Greene’s prose.

“Greene is a highly accomplished writer, with that rare capacity to turn on the charm and pathos and then turn it off again, just in the nick of time. His pacing is terrific, and he’s a good storyteller.” Elisa Petrini, William Morrow & Company

“I loved…Greene’s pure and graceful writing.” Shirley Wohl, Senior Editor, Clarkson S. Potter

“Sheldon Greene certainly has a wonderful sense of humor and a terrific ear for dialogue.” Claire Wachtel, Editor, Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, Inc.

What the reviewers said about LOST AND FOUND, Random House

Los Angeles Times Critic’s Commendation

“The prose is felicitous, deft yet unpretentious. Greene is a born storyteller.” Los Angeles Times Book Review

“…general but profound human truths as well as specific but universal lessons…The book goes down like vintage wine; it requires self-discipline to savor each chapter. Lost and Found is a beautiful work beautifully done. “Indianapolis News.

“…unconventional, warmly satisfying… Greene is a witty, astute commentator on the contemporary Jewish scene, but his observations on the need for moral values, compassion, charity, understanding should afford insight and inspiration to readers of all religious persuasions.” Publisher’s Weekly

“immensely entertaining“   Dallas Morning News-Sunday.

“…sensitive, deeply felt, intuitively wise…telling us universal truths of fabulous implication… climax of rich human delight…” Cleveland Plain Dealer

“It belongs on the same bookshelf with the Spoon River Anthology and with Mark Twain’s stories about growing up along the Mississippi.” Hadassah Magazine

“Delightful…This soothing, humorous story will appeal to a wide variety of readers…” Library Journal

“Excellent” KYW News Radio, Philadelphia

“Forget the big names and read this modest treasure by a…California lawyer who writes wickedly well. It is highly readable, amusing and poignant by turns, sharp and fresh in its perceptions, at ease with the mundane and the magical, kind hearted and high minded… Lost and Found is a ringing affirmation of life in the right here and right now…” Monterey Sunday Peninsula Herald (Calif.)

“Lovers of Sholom Aleichem and Isaac singer be alerted; an American-born writer named Sheldon Greene is carrying on the great Jewish-American tradition with great force, wit and clarity.” KFAC Radio, Los Angeles