Kenneth Lougee

Kenneth Lougee lives in Sandy Utah with his wife Jan Olsen Lougee and their autistic son, John Kenneth, and their West Highland White Terrie, Oliver. He is a member of the Utah and Alaska Bar associations and serves on the Ethics Advisory Opinion Committee. In his spare time he is an amateur radio operator with call sign K7AAO.

Besides his law degree, Mr. Lougee, holds a Masters of Arts in History from the University of Utah. There his Professors urged his to write a book on the labor song writer Joe Hill's trial and execution in Utah. Resulting from that urging, Mr. Lougee Wrote "Pie in the Sky: How Joe Hill's Lawyers Lost his Case, got him Shot and were Disbarred." The book was favorably reviewed in Utah Historical Quarterly, Journal of Mormon History and the Alaska Bar Rag with a book notice in Western Historical Quarterly. During the Centennial of Hill's execution, Mr. Lougee was the keynote speaker at the Utah Bar Association's annual meeting. With a law student he wrote a law review arguing that Hill's lawyers failed to preserve testimony under the reliable hearsay exception.

Turning his attention to his fifteen year tenure in Fairbanks, Alaska, Mr. Lougee has now published "Denali's Favored Son: A Bipolar Journey" where he negotiates his way between serious mental illness and life as a lawyer on the last frontier. In between he serves as a church leader, he almost becomes a judge and he wins multimillion dollar cases. He files the involuntary bankruptcy of Raejean Bonham, who ran a 58 million dollar Ponzi scheme from Fox, Alaska. Although hospitalized with a Bipolar 1 disorder, Mr. Lougee's book is full of hope, faith and endurance. A confounding factor is the classical autism of his youngest son. Between these difficulties, he meets colorful Alaskans and provides a history of post-pipeline Fairbanks.