A 1989 graduate of Harvard Law School, John Tennant has been representing public employees throughout the Bay Area for the past sixteen years in all aspects of their labor relations with both state and local government. Formerly a partner with the San Francisco law firm of Carroll, Burdick, & McDonough, John has served as general counsel to the San Jose Police Officers' Association since 1998. A frequent lecturer on the rights of public employees, John has given seminars to labor and management representatives alike on public sector labor laws, primarily those that govern police officers and other public safety employees. In 2002, John was awarded a Fulbright grant to study police unionism in Paris, France – specifically, how police unions and immigrants' right groups might lessen the tensions in the strife-torn suburbs outlying Paris between the French police and primarily Muslim immigrants from France's former colonies in North Africa.