BobLoewen_speaker_photoRobert Loewen

President of the Lincoln Club of Orange County

Robert Loewen is the President of the Lincoln Club of Orange County, where he has been a member for 20 years. He has served on the Executive Committee and Board of Directors of the Lincoln Club for more than ten years.

A passionate advocate for the right of workers to choose their own political agenda, in 1996 Mr. Loewen cast an early vote in the Lincoln Club’s Legislative Committee to fund the first polling for what became Proposition 226 on the 1998 ballot. Proposition 226 would have prohibited unions from obtaining political funding through employee payroll deductions without the employee’s express written consent. Since that time, Mr. Loewen has been an active writer and speaker on the subject of the political power of public employee unions.

An attorney licensed in California since 1975, Mr. Loewen is a member of a prominent international law firm in its 85-lawyer Irvine, California office. He specializes in business litigation with an emphasis on environmental and appellate cases and is often consulted on constitutional issues concerning personal freedom.

Mr. Loewen received his bachelor of arts degree from Pomona College in 1970. He graduated first in his class from the University of Southern California School of Law in 1975, where he served as Executive Editor of Lead Articles for the Southern California Law Review and was a member of the Order of the Coif. Following law school, Mr. Loewen served as a law clerk to Justice Byron R. White at the United States Supreme Court and for Judge Walter Ely at the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.

Mr. Loewen serves on the Board of Directors of the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation of Orange County, the Board and Executive Committee of the Lincoln Club of Orange County, the Board of Visitors of Chapman Law School, and is a member of the Alexis de Tocqueville Society of the United Way of Orange County. He lives in Laguna Beach, California with his wife of 38 years, and they have three grown children.