JOHN C. FLANDERS
John is a native of Longmont. He graduated from Longmont High
School in 1963 and attended Stanford University, graduating with
a BA degree in 1967. At Stanford he was on the basketball and
track teams. He helped register voters in Mississippi in the
fall of 1963. He was a member of the Sigma Chi fraternity. He
was rush chairman in 1966, when the local chapter pledged the
first black member in that fraternity’s history. He participated
in the Stanford in Italy program his senior year.
John went to the University of Colorado Law School, graduating
with a JD degree in 1970. He was a member of the Law Students
Civil Rights Counsel and spent the summer of 1968 interning with
the civil rights law firm of Hill, Tucker, and Marsh in
Richmond, VA researching and drafting briefs on school district
civil rights cases in the Federal courts.
In
1970, John began law practice with this law firm, which his
great grandfather helped found in 1871. His great uncle and
father also were members of this firm. His practice continues to
focus on Estate and Trust Planning and Administration, Real
Estate law, including water, oil and gas, and development,
Business law, Banking law, and Taxation as it applies to these
areas of law.
John has been a peer-review AV rated attorney for over 30 years.
John is married to Laurie. Together they have five children and
eight grandchildren. His hobbies are hiking, golf, skiing,
reading, gardening, and world travel.
John attends Lifebridge Christian Church where he is a director
and Vice-Chairman of the corporation which operates the business
affairs of the Church. He is active in the Longmont Rotary Club,
serving as its Editarian and on many committees through the
years. He served as Chairman of the Longmont Rotary Charity Fund
from 1996 to 2002.
John has been Chairman of the Longmont United Hospital
Foundation since 1999 and a member of the Board since 1993. He
was elected to the Board of Trustees of the Longmont United
Hospital from 1979 to 1988, serving as President from 1982 to
1988.
John was a member of the Board of Directors of the First
National Bank of Longmont (later First Main Street Bank, then
Centennial Bank and Trust, finally Guaranty Bank and Trust) from
1994 to 2009. He served as Chairman from 1998 to 2003.
John has served on the Boards of the Longmont Area Chamber of
Commerce, the Longmont Red Cross, the First Congregational
Church, The Historic Preservation Commission of the City of
Longmont, St. John’s School, and the Longmont YMCA, among
others.
John has coached little league basketball for many years. He has
accumulated over 1000 wins serving as head coach of sixth,
seventh, and eighth grades competitive league teams for the
Longmont Lightning Club (girls) and the Longmont Youth Boys
Basketball Club from 1993 through 2008. He was the head coach of
the Longmont High School girl’s basketball team for the
2000—2001 school year.
John serves as Chairman of the Lynn & Helen Clark Fund and the
Ray Lanyon Fund – both local general charity funds.
Recently John has received several honors: (i) in 2007 as a
“Super Conductor” by the Longmont Symphony Orchestra, (ii)
in 2008 as the winner of the “Longmont Distinguished Citizen”
award by the Longs Peak Chapter of the Boy Scouts of America,
(iii) in 2009 as the winner of the “Professional of the Year”
award by the Longmont Community Foundation. (iv) John served as
the Chair of the Longmont Distinguished Citizen Award for the
Boy Scouts for the 2010 dinner, and (v) in 2011 John was
inducted into the Boulder County Business Hall of Fame.