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Dr. Richard (Ric) Boyer (born 1944) is an American attorney turned educator and since 2001 a professor of Business and Social Science at Wayland Baptist University (WBU). Upon graduating from law school in 1972, Ric settled in Nashua, NH he practiced law for the next twenty years. A successful attorney, Boyer was included in the Best Lawyers in America, designated NH Bar Foundation Fellow, an honor reserved to 10% of NH attorneys, and was admitted to the state bars of New Hampshire and Florida, and of the United States Supreme Court. He was also a community leader as a board member and President of the Nashua Boys Club, on the Board of Directors of the regional Chamber of Commerce, Chairman and Trustee of Daniel Webster College, selected as the cover story for the Greater Nashua Business Digest, which designated him one of the region’s outstanding business leaders, and received the Nashua Boys Club’s the prestigious Man of the Year award. It was during this time that, according to a local newspaper, Ric became one of New Hampshire’s “fastest rising political stars” having been elected to New Hampshire’s House of Representatives (1978 - 79) followed by three terms to the State Senate (1981 - 82, 1983 - 84 and 1985 - 86), the latter considered by many as one of the country’s most important state senates by virtue of its small size and New Hampshire’s First in the Nation primary status. While in the Senate he also served as Deputy Minority Leader and Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee and was instrumental in many accomplishments for his district and state including the restructuring of the state’s court system, eliminating New Hampshire from being considered for national nuclear waste storage, obtaining the first EPA Superfund site designation and obtaining Nashua’s first county courthouse in over 100 years. While in the Senate, Ric was also elected Chairman of the State’s Democratic Party where he led the “charge” in preserving New Hampshire’s First in Nation primary status from a challenge by the Democratic National Committee.

In 1993, after twenty years as an attorney, he changed careers to education moving west with his wife Kathy where he grew up and closer to his parents, daughter, and granddaughters. After gaining valuable experience over the next several years in California as president of Commonwealth University, Dean of JFK University School of Law, and Dean of Education and Paralegal Studies for Platt College, in 2001 the Boyers moved to Arizona where Dr. Boyer first became an adjunct professor at both Cochise Community College and WBU's Sierra Vista Campus. In 2003 he became assistant dean and assistant professor at WBU's Sierra Vista, AZ campus. He continued in this position until 2007 when he became WBU's first full-time Virtual Campus professor, his current position, which has allowed he and his wife to live anywhere there is reliable internet service. As of January 1st this year the Boyers have moved back to Southern California, where he continues as Wayland's professor of Business and Social Sciences. Before their recent move back to California Dr. Boyer continued to be involved as a civic leader in in Southern Arizona having had the honor of being appointed to be Bisbee Arizona's last Municipal Judge and serving on the Board of Directors of the Sierra Vista Boys and Girls club where he also served as secretary, vice president and finally president before moving back to California.

Most recently, in April 2016 Dr. Boyer had the honor of being inducted into the Army’s prestigious Officer Candidate School (OCS) Hall of Fame in recognition of his lifetime of outstanding achievements and distinguishing himself as an attorney, judge, state representative and senator, party chairman, educator and civic leader.