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Jon Hinck (born January 9, 1954) is an American environmentalist, lawyer and politician. From 2006 to 2012 he served as a member of the Maine House of Representatives, representing House District 118, part of Portland, Maine. The non-partisan research group Maine Conservation Voters gives Hinck a score of 100% on its Environmental Scorecard. Hinck's law practice concentrates on mass tort litigation representing plaintiffs in pension plan, investor, consumer and environmental cases. In November 2013, Hinck won a seat on the Portland, Maine City Council and was sworn in on December 2. ==Early life, education, and law career== Hinck was born in Sacramento, California, and spent most of his childhood in Liberty Corner and Bernardsville, New Jersey. He was an honor student, an Eagle Scout and a varsity athlete. After graduating from Bernards High School in 1972, he worked his way through the University of Pennsylvania as a taxicab driver, projectionist and theater usher. He graduated with a dual major in English and History. While an undergraduate, he co-founded a professional jazz club called the New Foxhole Café in West Philadelphia. In 1976, Hinck spent six months teaching English language at the Iran-America Society in Isfahan, Iran. He traveled in the Middle East from Turkey through Afghanistan, Pakistan and Northern India. In 1977, Hinck moved to Seattle, Washington, where he worked in the local movie business, managing a landmark movie theater and buying and booking films. He subsequently became involved with the Greenpeace movement, co-founded the national organization known as Greenpeace USA, and served as National Campaign Director.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Greenpeace International (Amsterdam) Archives: 1979-2004 )〕 In 1990, Hinck earned a law degree from the UC Berkeley School of Law. Hinck was associate editor of the California Law Review where he also published ''The Republic of Palau and the United States: Self-Determination Becomes the Price of Free Association.'' In 1991, Hinck married Juliet Browne, whom he had met in law school. Browne is a partner at Verrill Dana law firm, where she is chair of the firm’s Environmental Law Group.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title =Verrill Dana )〕 She is also a trustee of Unity College in Unity, Maine.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title =Unity College Board of Trustees )〕 After law school, Hinck initially practiced law with Morrison & Foerster, then California’s largest law firm. At MoFo, Hinck represented defendants in securities fraud class actions such as In re VeriFone Sec. Lit., Civ. No. C-90-2705-VRW (N.D. Cal.) He then practiced with Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein, a leading class-action law firm. Hinck worked on consumer and environmental class actions and served as plaintiffs' class counsel in the massive maritime environmental tort case In re Exxon Valdez Oil Spill. In 1993, both Hinck and his wife Juliet Browne took positions as Assistant Attorneys General in Palau, a United Nations trusteeship in the Western Pacific. Hinck successfully litigated a series of cases that in 1994 enabled the Republic of Palau to become a sovereign nation. Hinck also successfully prosecuted criminal cases including one where he gained the conviction of legislators for trafficking in dangerous narcotics. In 1995 he was designated Acting Attorney General for the new nation. In 1998, working with Lewis Saul & Associates, which has offices in Washington DC and Portland, Maine, Hinck filed the first statewide case in the country against oil companies over groundwater contamination in Maine caused by the gasoline additive MTBE. Subsequently, Hinck helped to organize cases nationwide for recovery from MTBE pollution. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Jon Hinck」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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