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Mansfield Foundation Board
About Maureen &
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Walter F. Mondale
Walter F. Mondale serves as chairman of the Maureen and Mike Mansfield Foundation. He currently is senior counsel at Dorsey & Whitney, LLP, in the firm’s Asia practice group. A native of Minnesota, he served as Minnesota state attorney general (1960-1964), and for twelve years represented Minnesota in the United States Senate (1964-1976). In 1976, as Jimmy Carter’s running mate, Mr. Mondale was elected vice president of the United States. Mr. Mondale was the Democratic nominee for President in 1984. He also served as chairman of the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs, an organization that conducts international programs to maintain and strengthen democratic institutions. From 1993 to 1996, Mondale served as United States ambassador to Japan in the Clinton administration. In addition to service on the board of the Mansfield Foundation, he has served on the boards of the Guthrie Theatre Foundation, Mayo Foundation and University of Minnesota Foundation. He has also sat on several corporate boards of directors.
Mr. Mondale earned his B.A. in political science from the University of Minnesota in 1951. After completing service as a corporal in the U.S. Army, Mr. Mondale received his L.L.B. (cum laude) from the University of Minnesota Law School in 1956, having served on the Law Review and as law clerk at the Minnesota Supreme Court. 
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