H. Hurst Coffman

H. Hurst Coffman grew up in Ottawa, Kansas. He graduated from Ottawa public schools and received a B.A. degree in English Literature in 1969 from Ottawa University. Following college he taught English as a foreign language at a school in Japan for one year. Returning to the U.S. for law school in 1970 at the Washington College of Law at the American University in Washington, D.C., he received his J.D. degree in 1974. Hurst has fond memories of leaving Washington the same day as Richard Nixon in August, 1974. Hurst returned to Kansas where he became affiliated with the firm of Schroeder,...