Rick currently works full time in the Washington County Attorney’s Office in Stillwater, Minnesota where he is assigned to the administrative division. Rick deals with numerous aspects of the office involving data practices, HIPAA, the sheriff’s office, personnel matters and criminal prosecution and civil litigation. Rick has also been the Minnesota Sheriff’s Association counsel since 1987 is on the faculty of Northwestern University Police Command School and teaches throughout the United States on matters of employment law and criminal justice issues. He has a J.D. and master’s degree in public administration and is admitted to practice before the courts of Minnesota, 8th Circuit and U.S. Supreme Court.