Dan Cohen has served as President of the Minneapolis City Council, the Minneapolis Planning Commission, and is a current member of the Minneapolis Charter Commission. He is the author of Undefeated, a biography of Hubert Humphrey, a dozen children's mini mysteries, a history of Breck School, Anonymous Source, a personal memoir of his successful United States Supreme Court lawsuit, and the co-author of the fictional murder mystery City Of Stones. He is a graduate of Stanford University and Harvard Law School. He lives in Minneapolis with his wife, Gail, also a Stanford graduate.