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John
Michael Phelps, Esq.
John Michael
Phelps, the son of John and Dorothy Phelps, was born in
Fort Wayne, Indiana. Mr. Phelps was graduated cum laude
from
Princeton University
with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1971. He was graduated
from the
University of California -
Hastings College of the Law with a J.D. in
1975. Mr. Phelps is married to the former Irene Louise
Cappelloni, and has one son, David Jason Phelps. Mr.
Phelps has practiced as an attorney in San Francisco,
California, for more than thirty years.
Society Memberships
* Society of the Cincinnati in the State of Connecticut (former
President
of the California Association)
* General Society of Colonial Wars (former Lieutenant
Governor of the
California State Society)
* National Gavel Society
* Order of the Founders and Patriots of America (former Governor
General;
former Governor of the California State Society)
* National Society Sons and Daughters of the Pilgrims
(Honorary Governor
General)
* Presidential Families of America (President General)
* General Society of Mayflower Descendants
(Counselor General; Governor
of the California Society)
*
National Society Americans of Royal Descent (member
of the Most
Venerable Order of Saint Louis)
*
Hereditary Order of Descendants of Colonial Governors
*
Aztec Club of 1847
* Order of the Crown of Charlemagne in the United States
of America
* Baronial Order of Magna Charta (Surety)
* Order of Indian Wars of the United States
* Order of Three Crusades 1096-1192
* Order of Americans of Armorial Ancestry (Counselor
General)
* Order of the Merovingian Dynasty (Counselor General;
Founding Member)
* Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States
*
Jamestowne Society
* Order of Lafayette
*
Descendants of Signers of the Constitution
* General Society of the War of 1812
*
Society of the Descendants of Washington's Army at
Valley Forge
* Society of the Descendants of the Colonial Clergy
(Chancellor General)
* Sons and Daughters of the Colonial & Antebellum Bench &
Bar 1565-1861
(Chancellor General)
* National Society Sons and Daughters of Antebellum
Planters 1607-1861
(Chancellor General)
* Order Of Descendants of Colonial Physicians and
Chirurgiens (Counselor
General)
* Order of First Families of Connecticut (Chancellor
General; Charter
Member)
*
Order
of the First Families of Maine
* National Society Sons of American Colonists (Advocate
General)
* Winthrop Society (National Trustee)
* National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution
(former
Chancellor of the California Society)
* Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company of Massachusetts
* General Society Sons of the Revolution
* Dutch Colonial Society
of Delaware
* Guild of Colonial Artisans and Tradesmen, 1607-1783
(Master Guilder)
* Order of the First Families of Rhode Island and the
Providence Plantations
* Order of the First Families of Massachusetts
* First Families of Ohio
* Flagon & Trencher: Descendants of Colonial Tavern
Keepers
* National Society of Old Plymouth Colony Descendants
* Society of Indiana Pioneers
* Society of the Descendants of the Founders of Hartford
* Descendants of the Founders of Ancient Windsor
* Society of the Founders of Norwich, Connecticut
* Saybrook Colony Founders Association
* National Society Descendants of Early Quakers
* Order of the First Families of New Hampshire,
1622-1680 (Founding
Member and Parliamentarian)
* Order of First Families of Vermont 1609-1791
* Founders of the New Haven Colony
Chivalric Orders
*
The Most Venerable Order of the
Hospital of Saint John of Jerusalem
(bestowed by Elizabeth II, Queen of England)
*
Sovereign Military Order of the Temple of Jerusalem
(Priory of Saint
Francis, Secetary)
Other Notes
Mr. Phelps is currently a member of: the State Bar of
California since 1975; the U.S. District Court, the
Northern District of California since 1975; the U.S.
District Court, Eastern District of California since 1977;
the U.S. District Court, Central District of California
since 1978; the U.S. District Court, Southern District of
California since 1978; the U.S. Court of Appeals, 9th
Circuit since 1978; the Bar Association of San Francisco
since 1975; the Lawyers Club of San Francisco since 1975;
the Bar Register of Preeminent Attorneys since 1995; and
the Executives Association of San Francisco since 2001.
Mr. Phelps
is a former winner of the Princeton University's S.
Barksdale Penick Award. He also twice was awarded the
William C. Van Siclen Award by the Princeton Club of
Northern California.
Mr. Phelps was a member of the Princeton University
National Committee on Schools for four years and served as
chair of the Princeton University Alumni Schools Committee
for Northern California for nearly ten years. He has
served as Chair of the Marin County Schools Committee from
2002 to present. He also currently serves on the
Princeton Prize on Race Relations for the San Francisco
Bay Area. Mr. Phelps was the Princeton University, Class
of 1971, Secretary from 1996-2001 and President 2001-2006.
J. Michael Phelps is very active in his local community.
He is a current and longtime Board Member and Sponsor of
the Marin Shakespeare Company and the chair of its Human
Relations Committee. Mr. Phelps previously served as
Secretary of the Reedlands Homeowners Association for
several years. He served as Marin County Little League
Assistant District Administrator for three years, and
President of Tiburon Peninsula Little League for five
years (having served previously as a Coach for several
years). He was also a Coach of the Tiburon Peninsula
Soccer League. |
