Robert G. Flanders Jr. (born July 9, 1949) is an American attorney who is a partner at Whelan Corrente & Flanders.^[1] He is also the founder of Flanders and Medeiros.

Previously, Flanders served as an Associate Justice of the Rhode Island Supreme Court from 1996 to 2004.^[2]

Flanders was born in 1949 in North Massapequa, Long Island, New York and grew up in a middle-class family.^[3] His father was a salesman while his mother worked in fast food restaurants.^[3] He received his early education from Chaminade High School in Mineola, New York.^[4]

For his college education, he went to Brown University and graduated magna cum laude in 1971 with a major in English.^[3][5][6] During his college years at Brown, he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa and received a prize for an essay he wrote on the classicism of Henry Fielding in Tom Jones.^[3]

As a law student at Harvard, Flanders played minor league baseball for the Detroit Tigers and served as an editor of the Harvard Law Record.^[7] He graduated from law school in 1974.^[4]

In 2004, after eight years of service as a justice of the Rhode Island Supreme Court, he resigned from the post and joined Hinckley, Allen & Snyder as a partner.^[8]

In 2011, Governor Lincoln Chafee appointed Flanders as the Central Falls Receiver, tasked with addressing the city's financial distress.^[4]

As an academic, Flanders has taught constitutional law and judicial process courses at the Roger Williams University Law School, as a distinguished visiting professor, and at Brown University, as an adjunct assistant professor of law and public policy.^[4][6]

Flanders won the Republican party nomination, defeating the only other candidate on the ballot, Rocky De La Fuente, a businessman who was seeking to get on the Senate ballot in several states in 2018.^[9]

As the Republican Party nominee, he participated in the 2018 election for US Senator from Rhode Island. He lost the election to Democratic incumbent, Sheldon Whitehouse.^[10]

Flanders grew up in a middle class household and is the oldest of seven children.^[3] He is a strong advocate of separation of powers.^[3]

He and his wife Ann live in East Greenwich, Rhode Island. They have three children.^[11]

• Flanders, Jr., Robert G. (2005). Rhode Island Evidence Manual. LexisNexis.
• Flanders, Jr., Robert G.; Conley, Patrick (2007). The Rhode Island Constitution: A Reference Guide. Praeger.
• Flanders, Jr., Robert G.; Michaelis, Ron C.; Wulff, Paula H. (2008). A Litigator's Guide to DNA: From the Laboratory to the Courtroom. Academic Press.
• Flanders, Jr., Robert G. et al. (2017). A Practical Guide to Land Use Law in Rhode Island
• Flanders, Jr., Robert G. et al. (2022). Rhode Island Civil and Appellate Procedure with Commentaries. Thomson/Reuters.