Hatch added to forum panel

The Rosenmeier Center for State and Local Government at Central
Lakes College in Brainerd has announced that former Minnesota Attorney General
Mike Hatch has been added to the slate of panelists for its
Forum on Legislative Redistricting and Reapportionment. The forum will take
place at the Chalberg Theater at CLC from 7 to 9 p.m., Wednesday, January
25. The panel will also include Peter S. Wattson, a veteran
Minnesota Senate Legal Counsel and former General Counsel to Governor Mark
Dayton; Rep. Sarah Anderson, Chair of the House Committee on Redistricting; and
Gregg Peppin, former legislative analyst on the 2001 legislative redistricting
legislation. Taylor Stevenson, Vice President of the Rosenemier Center Board of
Directors will moderate the forum. Mike Hatch served as Minnesota
Attorney General from 1999 to 2007 and was the 2006 DFL candidate for governor.
Prior to being Attorney General Hatch was in private practice at the law firm of
Hatch, Eiden & Pihlstrom, a firm he headed from 1992 to 1998. From 1983 to
1990 Mr. Hatch served the state as Commissioner of Commerce.