The Buckeye City Council appointed G. Patrick HagEstad to fill the unexpired term of Ray Strauss which runs through December 2018. Mr. HagEstad will represent District 4 which roughly encompasses Buckeye north of Interstate 10, west of the White Tank Mountains along both sides of Sun Valley Parkway, and includes the communities of Festival Foothills, Sun City Festival, Tartesso, Watson Estates and a southwest portion of Sundance.
Mr. HagEstad is a 1995 graduate of the University of Tulsa and a 1998 graduate of the University of Tulsa College of Law. Mr. HagEstad has practiced law in Montana for the last 18 years and he is a shareholder in the Milodragovich Dale & Steinbrenner law firm. He is AV preeminent rated for professional excellence and ethics by Martindale-Hubbell in the practice areas of litigation, professional liability and insurance law. He plans to apply for his Arizona license and open an office for Milodragovich Dale & Steinbrenner in the Buckeye area within the next year.
Mr. HagEstad has lived in Buckeye since March 2013 with his wife, Rachel, and their three children Michael, Jonathan, and Austin.