Attorney A well-known Oregon lawyer, he practiced with
Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt of Portland and retired 2007. His practice consisted of corporate, appellate and general law. Faust represented public utilities, insurance companies, local baseball teams, public officials, public figures, pro bono clients, and numerous others. He served as president of the
Multnomah County Bar Association, and vice-president of the
Oregon State Bar. Faust was selected by his peers for listing in Best Lawyers in America, and Best Lawyers in Portland. He is featured as the team's lawyer in the 2014 prize-winning "Battered Bastards of Baseball," a Netflix documentary on the short but colorful life of the Portland Mavericks baseball team. Faust was president of the
Multnomah Bar Association from 1974 to 1975.
Town Hall For 13 years, Faust moderated
Town Hall, a weekly public affairs television program on ABC affiliate
KATU. The program featured discussions, often contentious, between public officials, experts and plain citizens on topics that ranged from serious (child abuse) to light (alien abductions). It drew high ratings and received numerous honors including national awards from
United Press International, the San Francisco State Broadcaster, and the Iris Award for Outstanding Local Public Affairs Program in the Nation from the
National Association of Television Program Executives.
Business Jack Faust's business activities include serving on the boards of
Pacific Northwest Bell, Equitable Savings & Loan and Western Savings Bank.
Civic involvement His civic involvement includes time spent as a member of the United States Advisory Committee on Trade Negotiations, the United States Bus De-regulation Commission, the
Oregon Land Conservation and Development Commission (vice chairman), the Oregon Commission on Higher Education In Portland, the Oregon Transportation Study Committee, the Multnomah County Charter review Committee (chairman), the Metropolitan Coliseum-Stadium Task Force, and the Oregon Trail Commission Coordinating Council. Faust also served as chairman of the Board of
Lewis & Clark College, and as a member of the boards of
Portland Opera,
Campfire Girls, SEI,
Arlington Club (president). He served as master of ceremonies or speaker at numerous civic banquets and charitable fundraisers, where he Introduced Presidents
Ford,
Reagan,
Bush Sr., Vice President
Nelson Rockefeller, U.S. senators, Oregon governors from
Tom McCall to
Ted Kulongoski, and other public figures. He served as a director of Oregonians for Higher Education Excellence, a committee that successfully advocated for the 2013 Oregon legislation giving the state's seven public universities self-governance. ==Politics==