Worshipful Brother Robert William Roth

Masonic History:

Grand Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons, State of Wisconsin

Grand Tiler, Grand Lodge of Wisconsin 2018-2019

Resolutions Committee: Chairman 2010-2011

Jurisprudence Committee, Member & Chairman, 2008-2009, 2011-2020

Freemasons Lodge #363

Past Master 2008

Lodge Trustee 2008-2011

Crandon Lodge #287

The Wisconsin Masonic Home, Inc, Three Pillars Senior Living Communities

Member 2003-2009

Vice Chairman, Board of the Board of Directors, 2005

Chairman, Board of Directors, 2006-2009.

Reappointed to the Board 2019-2022

Member, Planning Committee, Board of Directors, 2009-2020

For over twenty years, Worshipful Brother Roth has conducted seminars and retreats doing extensive training about how to create and excel as a Not for Profit Boards of Directors. He has presented these courses at a national level at a Leading Age national convention. Leading Age is the professional association of all not-for-profit health care providers in the USA. He has presented seminars and sessions at Grand Lodge Masonic Homes or Masonic supported public charities in many Grand Jurisdictions including New Jersey, Florida, California, Colorado, Wisconsin, Massachusetts and Michigan.

Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite:

Honorary Member of the Supreme Council, 33º, AASR of the Northern Jurisdiction, USA 2010

Past Commander-in-Chief, Consistory, Valley of Milwaukee 2003-2004

Trustee, Valley of Milwaukee 2004-2014

Chairman, Trustees, Wisconsin Scottish Rite Foundation, Valley of Milwaukee 2008-2011

York Rite:

Tri County Chapter #11 Royal Arch Masons

Red Cross of Constantine St Wilfred Conclave: Puissant Sovereign 2010-2011

Ancient Arabic Order, Nobles of the Mystic Shrine

Tripoli Temple, Milwaukee WI.

Ritualistic Divan

NationalSojourners, Inc., “The Masonic Military Veterans Order in America”

WB Bob Roth became a member of National Sojourners, Inc. in 1999. He served as President of Milwaukee Chapter #27 in 2003-2004, and Camp Commander of Paul Revere Camp, 2004-2005. In 2010, he was appointed to the National Membership Committee and became a member of the Committee of 33. He became Chairman of the National Membership Committee in 2012, and was elected National ThirdVice Presidentof the Order in 2016. He is currently serving as its National President Elect. Bob helped lead a nine year campaign to open the membership ranks of National Sojourners to all Master Mason Veterans who had honorably served. He stood with over 80% of the voting members in attendance at the National Convention in Charlotte, South Carolina, in June of 2016 to pass that resolution. The Order can now be petitioned for membership by any Master Mason Veteran in the USA. He has written extensively about retention, recruiting and recovery of members. And he has taught about how Masonic Ritual supports Freemasonry’s responsibility to honor our Nation’s Veterans routinely as well as part of all Grand Jurisdictions’ rendering those honors due to their Veteran Brothers on occasions set aside for such work. Colonel Roth is also a member of the National Sojourner Royal Order of Barrow Wheelers, and is member in perpetuity of numerous Sojourner Chapters throughout the USA.

Personal:

Bob Roth was born in Lansing Michigan in 1948. Graduating from Green Bay East High School in 1966, he attended Ripon College in Wisconsin through 1970, securing a Bachelor’s Degree and a commissionas Second Lieutenant in the Field Artillery of the United StatesArmy.

Military Career:

Colonel Roth retired from the 84^thDivision, United States Army Reserve in April of 1998, serving as Acting Assistant Division Commander, and Special Assistant to the Commanding General.

Commissioned in the Field Artillery in 1970, he served with the 4th and 5th Infantry Divisions as a forward observer, liaison officer, and assistant battalion S1. He was assigned to the 84^thDivision, United States Army Reserve, in 1972. He thereafter served as a battery commander, Battalion S2/3, Brigade S3, battalion commander, Assistant Chief of Staff for Personnel (G1) and Assistant Chief of Staff, Information Management. Following those two division general staff assignments, COL Roth served six years in two consecutive brigade command assignments, with the Training Support Brigade and 1st Brigade, of the 84^thDivision.

Colonel Roth is a graduate of the Basic and Advanced commissioned officer courses of the Field Artillery School at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, the Field Artillery and FORSCOM Pre-command courses, the Command and General Staff College and the United State Army War College.

Colonel Roth continues to serve the US military in a volunteer capacity, and is a past State Employer Outreach Director, with the Employer Support of the Guard Reserve (ESGR), a Department of Defense activity of the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Reserve Affairs. He currently serves on the ESGR WI State Executive Committee as its State Committee Historian.

Education and Training

Bachelor of Arts in English Literature, Ripon College, 1970

Juris Doctor, Marquette University, 1975

Military and Civilian Awards and Honors:

Among his military service awards are the Legion of Merit, Meritorious Service Medal with one Oak Leaf Cluster, and Army Commendation Medal with one Oak Leaf Cluster, and the Army Achievement Medal.

President’s Awards for Civilian Volunteer Service, 2005

“Preeminent Attorney at Law” “AV” rated determination, Martindale-Hubbell,for over 20 years.

“Top 1%” Certification, American Registry, Attorneys at Law, USA 2019

Civilian Activity:

Bob Roth graduated from Marquette University Law School in Milwaukee Wisconsin in 1975. He is currently of counsel to his law firm in Wisconsin, after forty-five years of law practice, concentrating on complex business litigation, as well as Constitutional law, property rights and eminent domain matters. He has litigated cases in many States and holds licenses to practice law in both Wisconsin and Arizona.

From 1987 to 2017 Bob Roth owned and operated a skilled care nursing home facility in rural northern Wisconsin. He employed as many as 100 men and woman living in and about a county seat with a population of 1920 persons. He knows what running a small business through all sorts of difficult times is all about. Most lawyers and retired military officers can’t spell “running a business,” whether for profit or not-for-profit. But this experience has helped him in his work with Grand Jurisdictions on many different issues and problems over the last 20 years.