Nick Slade, Jerome Foundation Member since 2019, is a member of the Hill family and grew up in Minneapolis. His first introduction to Jerome Hill’s work was a family screening of his autobiographical movie Film Portrait. The opening sequence in negative and the color it reveals in things has remained with him as a reminder that there is always more than one way to see, even when shaving in the bathroom.   

He is Deputy General Counsel to the Minnesota Department of Military Affairs. Previously he has worked for the U.S. Army at the National Guard Bureau in Virginia, for the Minnesota Office of Lawyers Professional Responsibility, in private practice as a consumer rights attorney with Barry, Slade & Wheaton LLC, and as an assistant public defender for the Office of the Public Defender 2nd Judicial District in St. Paul.

Slade earned his bachelor’s degree from the University of Minnesota and his juris doctor from Hamline University School of Law. He served in the U.S. Army, on active duty from 1982 to 1985, and in the U.S. Army Reserves until 1994. He joined the Minnesota National Guard as an attorney in the Judge Advocate Generals Corps in 2012, serving on active duty in 2012-2013 and 2015 to the present.

He is currently a trustee with the Northwest Area Foundation having previously served on the board from 2010-2019. He was as a member of the Minnesota Supreme Court Legal Services Advisory Committee in 2007-2015 and was on the board of Minnesota’s Franconia Sculpture Park in 1997-2011.

Slade lives in St. Paul, Minnesota, with his wife and has two adult children.