For nearly 30 years, Bob has continuously led the legal operations for Meals on Wheels America, and he currently holds the position of Chief Legal and Compliance Officer. During his tenure at Meals on Wheels America, Bob also served simultaneously in various other leadership roles while serving as general counsel, including as Chief Development Officer and Executive Vice President for Health Care Integration.
In his current capacity and leading a team of an associate general counsel and paralegal, Bob addresses legal and general compliance matters for virtually all operational aspects of the association and is an essential part of its strategy and policy coordination and development efforts, including working closing with the health care industry to build relationships and guide the broader engagement of Meals on Wheels in the nation’s health care system. In this capacity, Bob helped to develop and, for five years, managed an innovative, comprehensive national transition care program with one of the nation’s leading health care providers, which was used as a model for similar initiatives across the country. Throughout his tenure, Bob has been continuously engaged in providing governance assistance to the Meals on Wheels America board and has been instrumental in developing, implementing and participating in group purchasing efforts, membership outreach and training, research and thought leadership, and legislative and advocacy programs, all designed to produce bring greater value to the more than one thousand local Meals on Wheels providers that compose our membership.
While serving at Meals on Wheels America, Bob has been the principal of Herbolsheimer Law Offices, and prior to that, he was a partner in the Illinois law firm of Herbolsheimer, Lannon, Henson, Duncan and Reagan, P.C. He also served as a partner and an associate at the national law firm of Manatt, Phelps & Phillips in its Washington, D.C., office for more than seven years. Among other accomplishments, he has written three labor-related manuals for clients, including a comprehensive Occupational Safety and Health Administration compliance handbook. He has received major awards from his national clients for the legal representation he has provided, including his receipt of the prestigious Dankoff Award for Public Policy and Legislative Service in 2004. In 1992, Bob was a nominee for U.S. Congress in the 11th District of Illinois, and was described by the Chicago Tribune in one of his many editorial endorsements as an “outstanding” candidate offering “an intelligent agenda for his district and the nation.”
He graduated from Carleton College in Minnesota with a major in geology (with distinction on comprehensive exercises) and a minor in political science, and from Hamline University School of Law (now Mitchell Hamline School of Law) in St. Paul, Minnesota, where he was editor of the Journal of Minnesota Public Law. He is admitted to practice law in the District of Columbia, Illinois and Minnesota (inactive).
