CARL HERNANDEZ III
362 NORTH 900 EAST, OREM, UT
(801) 426-9967

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

ASSISTANT DEAN AND FACULTY MEMBER, BYU J. REUBEN CLARK LAW SCHOOL, 2001–Present

● Assistant Dean: Chair, Faculty Committee on Admissions and Recruiting; manage Admissions Office; oversee distribution of financial aid including multi-million dollar private loan fund, endowed scholarships funds and other financial aid; represent law school and University in promoting K-20 education initiatives

● Adjunct Faculty, BYU, Romney Institute of Public Management, Teach State and Local Government Law

● Other Committees: Dean’s Administrative Council; Scholarships Committee; Discovery Committee; University International Student Coordinating Committee; Master of Comparative Law Committee

● Awards, Romney Institute of Public Management Professor of the Year Award (2005); BYU Law School Student Body Distinguished Service Award (2005) and (2002); Utah Minority Bar Association Honoree of the Year (2003)

ASSISTANT/DEPUTY CITY ATTORNEY, City of Bakersfield (pop. 250,000), California, 1994-2001

● City Attorney Office Management Team

• Provide legal advice to city council and city departments regarding open meeting laws, public records requests, and other general municipal law matters

• Assist City Attorney on administrative matters such as the annual budget, inter/intra departmental projects and personnel issues

• Team with the City Attorney to represent and advise the city council regarding complex city and city/county construction projects such as the Bakersfield Centennial Gardens Arena (Convention Center)

● Bakersfield City Planning Department and Planning Commission Legal Counsel

• Provide representation at commission and subcommittee meetings; provide commission with advice and alternative solutions to legally and politically complex land use planning matters such as transportation planning and acquisition, large-scale commercial and residential development, annexations, environmental law and Endangered Species Act and address media regarding city positions on land use proposals of wide-spread public interest.

• Serve as member of task force consisting of land developers, environmental groups, realtor and building associations with the purpose of negotiating and implementing streamlined subdivision regulations
  

● City of Bakersfield Code of Enforcement, Building Department, Public Works Department, Real Estate Acquisition Department, and Police Department Legal Counsel

• Advise city departments and city council regarding real estate acquisition and eminent domain litigation for public works projects including convention center, street and freeway rights of way

• Defend City Police Department in Section 1983 Civil Rights litigation; assist in creating volunteer programs for community-based policing efforts; draft anti-trespassing/loitering and graffiti prevention legislation; draft legislation to limit negative effects of adult entertainment establishments; perform drug house nuisance, liquor store nuisance, anti-prostitution nuisance abatements and represent city in media coverage generated from such efforts

• Write Code Enforcement Policies and Procedures Manual and assist Building and Code Enforcement Departments in processing and prosecuting city code, Uniform Building Code and substandard housing violations

LAW CLERK AND ASSOCIATE/DEPUTY CITY ATTORNEY, McCormick, Kabot, Michner & Foley, Visalia, CA, 1991-1994 – Advise city councils regarding land use matters, public contracts and property acquisitions; eminent domain litigation, draft labor compliance policies and procedures manual for cities and special districts

EDUCATION

Juris Doctorate/Master of Public Administration, J. Reuben Clark Law School/J. Willard and Alice S. Marriott School of Management--Brigham Young University (BYU), Provo, Utah, 1992; Managing Editor, BYU Journal of Public Law, 1991-92, J. Reuben Clark Law School; Marriott Graduate School of Management Dean's List

Bachelor of Arts, BYU, College of Humanities, Provo, Utah, 1988; Major: Spanish; Minor: Music

TEXTS AND PUBLICATIONS

Text , State and Local Government Law for Public Management, 2002-Present; Author, City of Bakersfield Code Enforcement Policies and Procedures Manual, 1996-2000; Author, Legitimate Exercise of Parens Patriae Doctrine: State Power to Determine an Incompetent Individual's "Right to Die" After Cruzan, Volume 6, BYU Journal of Public Law, 1992; Coauthor, Breaking the Fiscal Impasse: Alternative Financing Methods for Financing Municipal Compliance with the Clean Water Act of 1987, League of California Cities, April 1992; Coauthor, Personnel Policies and Procedures Manual for Utah Association of Special Districts, June, 1991

COMMUNITY SERVICE

MEMBER, BOARD OF TRUSTEES, TULARE-KINGS COUNTY LEGAL SERVICES, INC. (1994-1996)
MEMBER AND CHAIR, UTAH GOVERNOR’S HISPANIC ADVISORY COUNCIL (2004-Present)
UTAH STATE AND COUNTY DELEGATE AND PRECINCT CHAIR, REPUBLICAN PARTY (2004-Present)