| Bob Flanders | |
| Office: | Associate Justice of the Rhode Island Supreme Court |
| Term Start: | 1996 |
| Term End: | 2004 |
| Successor: | William P. Robinson III |
| Birth Name: | Robert G. Flanders Jr. |
| Birth Date: | 9 July 1949 |
| Birth Place: | North Massapequa, New York, U.S. |
| Party: | Republican |
| Spouse: | Ann Flanders |
| Children: | 3 |
| Education: | Bachelor of Arts Juris Doctor |
| Alma Mater: | Brown University Harvard University |
Robert G. Flanders Jr. (born July 9, 1949) is an American attorney who is a partner at Whelan Corrente & Flanders.[1] He is also the founder of Flanders and Medeiros.
Previously, Flanders served as an Associate Justice of the Rhode Island Supreme Court from 1996 to 2004.[2]
Flanders was born in 1949 in North Massapequa, Long Island, New York and grew up in a middle-class family.[3] His father was a salesman while his mother worked in fast food restaurants.[3] He received his early education from Chaminade High School in Mineola, New York.[4]
For his college education, he went to Brown University and graduated magna cum laude in 1971 with a major in English.[3] [5] [6] During his college years at Brown, he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa and received a prize for an essay he wrote on the classicism of Henry Fielding in Tom Jones.[3]
As a law student at Harvard, Flanders played minor league baseball for the Detroit Tigers and served as an editor of the Harvard Law Record.[7] He graduated from law school in 1974.[4]
In 2004, after eight years of service as a justice of the Rhode Island Supreme Court, he resigned from the post and joined Hinckley, Allen & Snyder as a partner.[8]
In 2011, Governor Lincoln Chafee appointed Flanders as the Central Falls Receiver, tasked with addressing the city's financial distress.[4]
As an academic, Flanders has taught constitutional law and judicial process courses at the Roger Williams University Law School, as a distinguished visiting professor, and at Brown University, as an adjunct assistant professor of law and public policy.[4] [6]
See main article: 2018 United States Senate election in Rhode Island.
Flanders won the Republican party nomination, defeating the only other candidate on the ballot, Rocky De La Fuente, a businessman who was seeking to get on the Senate ballot in several states in 2018.[9]
As the Republican Party nominee, he participated in the 2018 election for US Senator from Rhode Island. He lost the election to Democratic incumbent, Sheldon Whitehouse.[10]
Flanders grew up in a middle class household and is the oldest of seven children.[3] He is a strong advocate of separation of powers.[3]
He and his wife Ann live in East Greenwich, Rhode Island. They have three children.[11]