Alumni Virtual Talk with Rick Ober '55

Calvert alumni are invited to join us Monday, October 18, at 12:00 P.M. for a virtual discussion with Rick Ober ’55.

Born and raised in Baltimore, Rick has graduated from Calvert School, Gilman School, Princeton University, and Yale Law School. After a clerkship with the chief judge of the Maryland Court of Appeals, he spent five years at Ballard Spahr in Philadelphia and 26 years as executive vice president and general counsel of United Jersey Banks/Summit Bancorp, a New York Stock Exchange bank holding company. During this time, Rick managed a staff of 97 and grew the bank from $2 billion to $39 billion by completing 27 acquisitions. Rick then did stints as general counsel of Trenton startup TerraCycle, Inc. and nonprofit Isles, Inc., finding time in between to serve as research director in U.S. Senate and U.S. Congressional campaigns.

Since February 2018, Rick Ober has been a volunteer legal analyst for the Princeton Gerrymandering Project and Electoral Innovation Lab, which translate math into law and law into math to help patch holes and fix bugs in democracy. This requires an interdisciplinary approach where statistics, mapmaking, and law can work together. He is co-author of articles on gerrymandering in the University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law, Albany Law Review, Stanford Journal of Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, The Washington Post, and The American Prospect.