Biography:

Richard D. Roth is a Partner with the business law firm of Carney & Delany, and Chair of the Firm's Labor and Employment Department, specializing in labor and employment law for over 23 years. Prior to joining Carney & Delany, he served as the Managing Partner of the law firm of Reid & Hellyer, as an attorney with the National Labor Relations Board and as a Judge Advocate with the United States Air Force. Mr. Roth received his undergraduate degree from Miami University, Oxford, Ohio in 1972, and his law degree from Emory University in 1974. Among his other professional and civic activities, Mr. Roth serves as an adjunct instructor in Labor and Employment Law at the University of California at Riverside, Graduate School of Management and in the University Extension Division and is the author of "Hiring Practices in the 1990's - Employment Under Pressure". His areas of practice include defense of wrongful termination suits, discrimination claims, wage and hour claims, ERISA claims and related matters in California and Federal Courts; and, the defense of employers before administrative agencies, including the California Fair Employment and Housing Commission and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the National Labor Relations Board, the California Labor Commissioner, the U.S. Department of Labor, and California and Federal OSHA. His published court decisions include Skyline Homes v. Department of Industrial Relations, 165 Cal.App.3d 239 (1985) (wage/hour). He is a member of the State Bars of Georgia and California and is admitted to practice before all California courts, the U.S. District Court for the Central and Southern Districts of California, and the Northern District of Georgia, and the Fifth, Ninth and Eleventh U.S. Circuit Courts of Appeals.

Among his many civic activities, he is the Past Chairman of the Board for the Greater Riverside Chambers of Commerce. He is a member of the Monday Morning Group, The Raincross Club, the Riverside Community Hospital Advisory Board, and the Automobile Club of Southern California ("AAA") Advisory Board. He is General Counsel for the Riverside Arts Foundation Board of Directors and is a member of the Inland Empire Board of Directors for the Employer's Group (formerly the California Merchants and Manufacturers Association). Mr. Roth is past Vice Chairman of the Parkview Community Hospital Board and past Trustee of the March Field Museum. Mr. Roth is a 1990 graduate of the Greater Riverside Chambers of Commerce Leadership Riverside program.

In addition to the private practice of law, Mr. Roth is a Major General in the United States Air Force Reserve and presently serves as the Mobilization Assistant to the Judge Advocate General, Headquarters, United States Air Force. In 1987, Mr. Roth received the Reginald C. Harmon Trophy as the Air Force Outstanding Reserve Attorney and in 1992 he was named California Air Force Association Reserve Man of the Year.