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Rob ParksAuthor Since: 2006 Publications:
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Biography
Coach Parks captained his High School NFL debate team from 1978-1981 and judged debate ever since. A graduate of Bowdoin College and Franklin Pierce Law Center, Captain Parks served as an Air Force JAG officer for 5 years before starting his own private practice in North Carolina specializing in arguing criminal cases before appellate courts. During that time he appealed a half dozen cases to the US Supreme Court and regularly argued cases in front of the highest courts in our land: including the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, US Court of Claims, US Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces and the US 4th Circuit Court of Appeals. He also spent time as an adjunct professor teaching Torts, Criminal Law and Consumer Law at Wesley College and Trial Advocacy at Widener University School of Law.
After a decade of trying to fix broken adults, Rob changed his career focus to building better youth. He has spent the last 6 years working for the Boy Scouts of America and currently serves as a Field Director responsible for over 7,000 youth in the National Capital Area Council, Washington, DC, the 3rd largest council in the United States. He is an instructor for Blue Book Debate Camps and is also a volunteer Senior Counselor with the Maine Boys State program. Rob lives with his wife and son in Pomfret, MD.
Rob and his old debate partner, Vance Trefethen, have been teaching debate camps since 2002. The camps have become a Training Minds Ministry event that takes place in various parts of the country (click here for complete information).