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THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS
CONTRA COSTA COUNTY, CALIFORNIA-
Date:
April 5, 2005 Adjournment
On this day the Board of Supervisors adjourned this meeting in memory of
John Daniel Van Voorhis 65,Born in Oakland, June 18, 1939. Dan died
peacefully at California Pacific Medical Center with his children at his side
from heart and liver failure. Dan grew up in Walnut Creek,where he
graduated from Los Lomas High School,before marrying his high school
sweetheart, Karen Judith Wacker, in 1960. Dan graduated from San
Francisco State University,then attended Boalt Hall at the University of
California at Berkeley where he earned his Juris Doctorate. Dan joined his
brother Thomas's law firm of Campbell,Van Voorhis and Bybee in Walnut
Creek in 1965,before opening his own firm in 1975 -Van Voorhis and
Skaggs with longtime friend and partner, Sanford M. Skaggs. Specializing
in real estate and local government law,the firm of Van Voorhis and
Skaggs was eventually purchased by and merged with the firm of
McCutchen,Doyle, Brown and Enersen in 1984 (today Bingham
McCutchen). Dan's efforts on behalf of his main client Blackhawk helped
earn him an equity position in the company in 1975; the post of general
counsel also in 1975, and in 1983 he was named as president of Blackhawk
Corporation. In this capacity he spearheaded the development of the two
largest real estate projects ever constructed in Northern California at that
time,Blackhawk and Canyon Lakes. After his retirement in 1990,Dan
devoted his tremendous energies and resources to establishing professional
soccer in the US and founded, owned and operated the San Francisco Bay
Blackhawks from 1988 to 1994. He was honored by Honda for his
contribution to professional soccer in America in 1993, and was inducted to
the California Association North Soccer Hall of Fame in August of 2004.
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