Robert R Beauchamp

I grew up in Tustin, California and attended Foothill High School.  My father was a professional rodeo cowboy and trained exotic animals for TV and movies.  I followed his footsteps into college and professional rodeo, moved up to Madera California (between Fresno and Merced) and on the side trained dogs for hunting, mostly pointers and retrievers.  

One day the sheriff of Madera County approached me about starting a police K-9 program.  I wasn't making much money in rodeo so I agreed and became a deputy sheriff in 1979.  I trained K-9s for both the Madera Sheriff's Office and the Police Department as well as working on patrol and supervising the other dog handlers.

In my spare time, I obtained my Bachelor's Degree in Economics from Cal State Fresno and received a full scholarship to USC Law School in Los Angeles which I could not turn down.  On graduation, I went to work for the Mega-firm of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher then moved to a real estate boutique in Orange County, California.  After going through a divorce myself, I became appalled at what the lawyers and the system were doing to children and decided that I could do better than most.  So I made family law my mission though I still do a great deal of real estate and business law.