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, Slade 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 General Corps in 2012, serving on active duty from 2012 to 2013 and from 2015 to the present.

He served as Trustee for Northwest Area Foundation from 2008 to 2026, and on the board from 2010-2019. Slade was a member of the Minnesota Supreme Court Legal Services Advisory Committee from 2007 to 2015 and was on the board of Minnesota’s Franconia Sculpture Park from 1997 to 2011.

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