Hal Stratton attended the University of Oklahoma on a geology scholarship and earned a bachelor's degree with a major in geology in 1973.
16 Facts About Hal Stratton
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Hal Stratton later attended law school at the University of Oklahoma, where he earned a Juris Doctor degree in law in 1976, and was a member of the American Indian Law Review.
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Hal Stratton was reelected to the New Mexico House three times thereafter and served a total of four terms.
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Hal Stratton was named the American Legislative Exchange Council's Legislator of the Year in 1981.
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In 1986, Hal Stratton was elected to the office of New Mexico Attorney General.
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Hal Stratton is the only Republican to be elected to that office in New Mexico since 1928.
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Hal Stratton was limited to one term as New Mexico Attorney General by the New Mexico Constitution and served from 1987 through 1990.
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Also, while serving as attorney general, Stratton brought the largest consumer action in the history of the New Mexico Attorney General's office on behalf of New Mexico consumers against Frontier Ford, gaining a $1.2 million settlement on behalf of the state and consumers.
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Hal Stratton was nominated by President Bush to be chairman of the US Consumer Product Safety Commission in March 2002, confirmed for the position by the US Senate on July 25,2002, and sworn in as chairman on August 2,2002.
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Hal Stratton served in that position until resigning effective July 15,2006.
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Hal Stratton implemented the first memorandum of understanding with AQSIQ in China, where he held the first Sino-US Consumer Product Safety Summit in 2005.
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Hal Stratton then returned to Albuquerque, New Mexico, to join the Albuquerque office of Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, where he now practices.
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Hal Stratton is a member of the New Mexico, Colorado, Oklahoma, Texas and District of Columbia bars.
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Hal Stratton is admitted before the US Supreme Court as well as a number of federal appellate and district courts.
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Hal Stratton is an adjunct professor of law at the George Mason University School of Law, where he teaches a law course he created, State Attorneys General: History, Powers and Responsibilities.
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Hal Stratton has given over one hundred keynote speeches and seminars in English and Spanish in over 11 countries and 35 states, and written articles and publications on legal, legislative, and regulatory issues.