The time spent by the general counsel of the Boy Scouts of America as a young scout and adult volunteer led him to merge his profession with his passion. The national organization, based outside Dallas, was so impressed by Mathews’s volunteer efforts that they offered him the job of deputy general counsel in 2002. Mathews hesitated. “Eventually, I decided the best way I could serve scouting was as a professional.”
A prospective employer once asked Richard Mathews to name a challenge he’d overcome. Mathews could have told a story from his years as a state prosecutor in Flint, Michigan. Instead, he described how, as a teen, he conquered his own fears, performed a mock water rescue, and won the merit badge for lifesaving.
