Dennis “Boog” Highberger is a 1992 graduate of the University of Kansas School Law. He served as Special Counsel to the Secretary of Health and Environment for many years, and his areas of practice during that time included the regulation of long-term care homes, food service, and child care, and many other areas of health law, environmental law, and administrative law. His areas of private practice have included wills, estates, contracts, family law, federal communications law, and general civil practice.
Boog served on the Lawrence City Commission from 2003 to 2009 and was Mayor in 2005/2006. He has been an active member of the Lawrence community, and currently serves on the Douglas County Food Policy Council, the City of Lawrence’s Public Incentives Review Committee (PIRC) and Sustainability Advisory Board (SAB), and the boards of directors of Independence, Inc., the Community Mercantile Education Foundation (CMEF), and the East Lawrence Neighborhood Association (ELNA).