Bill Pentelovitch Appointed to the Minneapolis Civil Rights Commission

Maslon is pleased to announce that attorney Bill Pentelovitch was sworn in on Feb. 26 as a member of the Minneapolis Civil Rights Commission. He was appointed to the commission by Mayor Jacob Frey and his appointment was confirmed by the City Council.

Bill said he is especially proud of the appointment as he was mentored during the first decade of his career by Maslon co-founder Hyman Edelman, who in 1947 was one of the first appointees of Minneapolis Mayor Hubert Humphrey to the predecessor to the Civil Rights Commission.

"I was also fortunate enough, in 1970, to be one of approximately 20 University of Minnesota students selected by lottery to take the public policy classes Humphrey taught for two quarters during the period between the end of his tenure as vice president and his return to the U.S. Senate," Bill said. "I gratefully dedicate my service on the Civil Rights Commission to the memories of Hy Edelman and Hubert Humphrey."

In his Of Counsel role at Maslon, Bill consults with his Maslon colleagues on litigation and trial strategy. He also serves as a mediator and is a member of the national employment law and commercial law panels of the American Arbitration Association.

In addition to his work on the Civil Rights Commission, Bill serves as Special Legal Counsel to the Executive Director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Minnesota (the board of which he formerly chaired), as a member and panel chair of the Minnesota Lawyers Professional Responsibility Board, as a member of the Minnesota Supreme Court Advisory Committee on the Rules of Lawyer Professional Responsibility, and as a member of the board of directors of MacPhail School of Music.

For his many decades of services to his communities, Bill was a co-recipient of the 2014 Sidney Barrows Lifetime Commitment Award of the Cardozo Society and the sole recipient of the 2020 Lifetime Achievement Award of the Minnesota State Bar Association.