Richard Turner is a graduate of Stanford University and the University of California, Boalt Hall School of Law. He practiced law for over 40 years, serving as a Deputy Attorney General in the California Department of Justice, as personal counsel to Ronald Reagan, Governor of California, and in private practice specializing in government and administrative law.
Richard is an accomplished writer and poet, an award winning photographer, and has been selected as the featured artist in galleries and public buildings. He has presented his work in many juried art shows and festivals.
Richard’s work is on exhibit in homes and businesses throughout the country, including permanent biophilic commissioned exhibits in the new Mercy San Juan Hospital Tower, Adventist Health and Rideout Hospital and in the ICU and surgical center waiting rooms at Methodist Hospital in Sacramento.
His poetry was selected for publication in the 2012 Sacramento poetry anthology. He is the founder and owner of “Gorgeous Greetings™,” having published thousands of fine art greeting cards depicting our natural world.
Richard is the Past President of the Sacramento Fine Arts Center, a non-profit, community outreach art organization. He has introduced cross genres of poetry, jazz and art to the Center and has brought them together in concert.
He has been featured by AARP in a documentary about career change “late in life” and has been interviewed in numerous podcasts and publications on his shift from the law to poetry and photography. In this regard Richard wrote and published a celebrated book, I Can’t Always See My Path…But I Keep On Walking, warmly endorsed by the late Dr. Wayne Dyer and notable nature photographers. His second book of photography and poetry, Sweet Crazy, Walkin’ On The Edge, will appear in 2022.
He is a member of the Nature Conservancy, the National Audubon Society, the Natural Resources Defense Council, and who knows what else!
He lives in the City of Sacramento with lawyer and designer Prem Hunji Turner, his wife of many years, and his spiritual and creative partner. He has three living children, all of whom share his love and appreciation of nature, eight grandchildren, and five great-grandchildren, all of whom he is urging become park rangers instead of lawyers!
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