Meeting Speaker for June 2, 2014

Jack Ohman is the editorial cartoonist for The Sacramento Bee, a position previously held by the late Rex Babin.  Previously Jack worked for The Oregonian, based in Portland and distributed throughout Oregon.  This followed the Detroit Free Press, and The Columbus Dispatch. Presently his work is syndicated to 200 newspapers by Tribune Media Services. He was born on September 1, 1960, in St. Paul, Minnesota. He attended the University of Minnesota, where he worked for three years on The Minnesota Daily.

With the discovery there were warmer places in the world he headed west.  Realizing Sacramento was warmer than Portland was just an added bonus.  Upon joining the editorial board as cartoonist, Mr. Ohman has become an active blogger.  His posts, often found in the Sunday Bee, with a drawing showing his distinctive hair profile, cover a range of regional issues.

Ohman was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 2012, and has won the 2009 Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award, the 2009 Society of Professional Journalists Award, the 2011 Scripps Howard Foundation Journalism Award, the 2002 National Headliner Award, and the 1995 Overseas Press Club Thomas Nast Award, among others.

He has a B.A. in History from the University Honors Program at Portland State University. He is the author of ten books, five on the subject of fly fishing. On a more personal note he is the father of three children, and lives in Sacramento, California.