Personal Life
Hatch married Elaine Hansen on August 28, 1957. They are the parents of six children.
Hatch is a founder and co-chair of the Federalist Society, a conservative organization of lawyers.
Hatch serves as a member of the board of directors of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
Hatch gave Benny Zippel, an Italian immigrant who was serving as the head of the Chabad-Lubavicher Synagogue in Utah a letter to send to the Immigration and Naturalization Services in 1992 to recommend he be given permanent residence status as a rabbi in Utah. This was not enough, and it took Gordon B. Hinckley linking Zippel up with lawyer Oscar McConkie III to prevent his loss of legal status in the U.S.
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