Endorsements
Ratings
Ratings from the Legal Community
Washington Women Lawyers – “Exceptionally Well Qualified”
Latina/o Bar Association of Washington – “Exceptionally Well Qualified”
Washington State Veterans Bar Association – “Exceptionally Well Qualified”
Cardozo Society of Washington State – “Exceptionally Well Qualified”
QLaw – “Exceptionally Well Qualified”
King County Bar Association – “Well Qualified”
Joint Asian Judicial Evaluation Committee – “Well Qualified”
Loren Miller Bar Association – “Well Qualified”
Other Ratings and 2020 Recommendations
Recommended in the 2020
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“Highly Recommended”
by SEAMEC
Seattle Metropolitan Elections Committee
(2020)
Endorsed by
THE SEATTLE MEDIUM
(2020)
Endorsements
Organizations
Teamsters Joint Council No. 28
(2020)
Amalgamated Transit Union (ATU) 587
(2020)
PROTEC 17
Professional & Technical Employees
(2020)
representing the court reporters of the King County Superior Court
and the Probation Officers of Seattle Municipal Court
National Women’s Political Caucus of Washington
(2020)
Democrats for Diversity & Inclusion
(2020)
Judges
Washington Supreme Court
Justice Faith Ireland (ret)
Justice Sheryl Gordon McCloud
Justice Raquel Montoya-Lewis
Justice Mary Yu
Washington Court of Appeals
Judge Bill Bowman *
Division I
former King County Superior Court Judge
Judge Steven Dwyer
Division I
former Snohomish County Superior Court Judge
Judge Dennis J. Sweeney (ret)
Division III
King County Superior Court
- Judge Chad Allred
- Judge Susan Amini
- Judge Johanna Bender
- Judge Elizabeth Berns
- Judge Regina Cahan
- Judge Sam Chung
- Judge Harriett Cody (ret)
- Judge Susan Craighead
- Judge Andrea Darvas
- Judge Michael Diaz
- Judge Karen Donohue
- Judge Theresa Doyle (ret)
- Judge John Erlick (ret)
- Judge Marshall Ferguson
- Judge Veronica Alicea Galván
- Judge Julia Garratt
- Judge Janet Helson
- Judge Laura Inveen (ret)
- Judge David Keenan
- Judge Nelson Lee
- Judge Barbara Linde (ret)
- Judge Dean Lum
Assistant Presiding Judge - Judge Brian McDonald
- Judge John McHale
- Judge Maureen McKee
- Judge Annette Messitt
- Judge Catherine Moore
- Judge Doug North
- Judge Sean O’Donnell
- Judge Patrick Oishi
- Judge Suzanne Parisien
- Judge Nicole Gaines Phelps
- Judge Cindi Port
- Judge Mafé Rajul
- Judge Judith Ramseyer
- Judge Kristin Richardson
- Judge Jean Rietschel (ret)
- Judge Mary Roberts
- Judge James Rogers
Presiding Judge - Judge Roger Rogoff (ret)
- Judge Steve Rosen
- Judge Averil Rothrock
- Judge John Ruhl
- Judge Michael Ryan
- Judge Ken Schubert
- Judge Michael Scott
- Judge Catherine Shaffer
- Judge Ketu Shah
- Judge Mariane Spearman (ret)
- Judge Julie Spector
- Judge David Steiner
- Judge Aimée Sutton
- Judge Tanya Thorp
- Judge David Whedbee
- Judge Sandra Widlan
- Judge Josephine Wiggs-Martin
- Judge Matt Williams
- Judge Melinda Young
- Commissioner Jennie Laird
Other Washington Courts
- Judge Anna Alexander
Snohomish County Superior Court - Judge Virginia Amato
King County District Court - Judge Marcine Anderson
King County District Court - Judge Joe Campagna
King County District Court - Judge Art Chapman
King County District Court - Judge Andrea Chin
Seattle Municipal Court - Judge Mark Chow
King County District Court - Judge Mary Beth Dingledy
Snohomish County Superior Court - Judge Mark Eide (ret)
King County District Court - Judge Michael Finkle
King County District Court - Judge Michael Frans
Kent Municipal Court - Judge Beth Fraser
Snohomish County District Court - Judge Michelle Gehlsen
King County District Court - Judge Laurel Gibson
King County District Court - Judge Jeffrey Goodwin
Snohomish County District Court - Judge Anne Harper (ret)
King County District Court - Judge Gregg Hirakawa
King County District Court - Judge Anthony Howard
Snohomish County District Court - Judge Karli Jorgensen (ret)
Kent Municipal Court - Judge Amy Kaestner
Everett Municipal Court - Judge Jill Klinge
King County District Court - Judge Rhonda Laumann
King County District Court - Judge Patricia Lyon
Snohomish County District Court - Judge Ed McKenna (ret)
Seattle Municipal Court - Judge Robert B.C. McSeveney (ret)
Kent Municipal Court - Judge Kara Murphy
Renton Municipal Court - Judge Jessica Ness
Monroe Municipal Court - Judge Lisa Paglisotti
King County District Court - Judge Kevin Peck
King County District Court - Judge Jason Poydras
King County District Court - Judge Tom Quinlan
Pierce County Superior Court - Judge Jennifer Rancourt
Snohomish County District Court - Judge Laura Riquelme
Skagit County Superior Court - Judge Rebecca Robertson
Federal Way Municipal Court - Judge Damon Shadid
Seattle Municipal Court - Judge Scott Stewart
Issaquah Municipal Court - Judge Krista White Swain
Black Diamond Municipal Court - Judge Jeff Swan
Yakima County Superior Court - Judge Paul Thompson
Snohomish County Superior Court - Judge Donna Tucker
King County District Court - Judge Laura Van Slyck
Everett Municipal Court - Judge Kim Walden
Tukwila Municipal Court - Judge Matt York
King County District Court
Attorneys
- Ed Allen
- Chloe Alyn
- Chloe Anderson
- Edwin Aralica
- Brian Ashbach
- Jennifer Atwood
- Rob Ault
- Bill Bailey
- Joseph Baker
- Bradley Barshis
- Steve Bennett
- George Bianchi
- Amity Bjork
- Chris Black *
- John Brangwin
- Michael Brodsky
- Dana Brown
- John Henry Browne
- Bernadette Bulacan
- Liza Burke
- Robert Butler
- Henry Chae
- Ken Chang
- Darrell Cochran **
- Kathryn Comfort
- Douglas Cowan
- Stephen Crane
- Joseph Cutler
- W. Scott Davis
- Ann Deutscher
- Maria Diamond **
- Fred Diamondsone
- Jonathan Dichter
- James Dixon
- Jeffrey Donchez
- Mercedes Donchez
- Joshua Doull
- Doug Dunham
- Barry Flegenheimer *
- Scott Fogg
- Steven Fogg
- Jon Scott Fox
- Neil Fox
- Patricia Fulton *
- Jolyn Gardner
- Whitney Gardner
- Luke Garratt
- Emily Gause
- David Gehrke
- Dan Gerl
- Julia Gold
- Ian Goodhew
- Kim Gordon *
- Anthony Grasher
- Mitch Greene
- Tricia Grove
- Michael Guadagno
- Kimberly Hamm
- Elizabeth Hanley
- Paul Hanson
- Christina Haring-Larson
- Matthew Harrington
- Darcy Harris
- Melissa Hart
- Danielle Havens
- Lisa Hayes
- Stephen W. Hayne *
- William Hochberg
- Monica Hollenberg
- Jason Holloway
- Jennifer Horwitz
- Ron Housh
- Lori Hurl
- Peter Hurtado
- Ron Housh
- Andrew Huff
- Doug Hyldahl *
- Bill Jaquette
- Zach Jarvis
- Larry Jefferson *
- Jeff Jones
- Ken Kagan
- Lawrence Kahn
- Paul Kampmeier
- Chris Kattenhorn
- James Kearney
- Mike Kelly
- Keith Kessler **
- Stacy Kihlstrom
- Susan Kim
- William Kirk
- Jeffrey Kradel
- Sen. Patty Kuderer (48th LD)
Washington State Senator - Jason Lantz
- Matt Lapin
- Tim Leary
- Tom Lerner
- James Lobsenz
- Aaron Lukoff
- Felix Luna
WSAJ Trial Lawyer of the Year, 2019 - Jeff MacNichols
- Joseph Marshall
- Todd Maybrown *
- Ryan McBrayer
- Shawn McCully
- Lucas McWethy
- Brad Meryhew
- Bethany Mito
- Lynn Moberly
- Jeannie Mucklestone
- Kristen Murray
- Amy Muth *
- Todd Nichols **
- Kelly Noonan
- Omar Nur
- Lenell Nussbaum *
- David O
- Cooper Offenbecher
- Peter Offenbecher
- Tisha Pagalitauran
- Julie Park
- Schoen Parnell
- Sheri Pewitt
- Michael Pfau
- Andrew Phipps
- John Polito
- Vanessa Power
- Saad Qadri
- Scott Railton
- Peter Ralston
- Jonathan Rands
- Andrew Rice
- Sharon Rice
- Stewart Riley
- Albert A. Rinaldi, Jr.
- Abraham Ritter
- Scott Robbins
- David Roberson
- James S. Rogers **
- Emma Scanlan
- Greg Schwesinger
- Greg Scott
- Michelle Scudder
- Gene Shaffer-Strathman
- Lynne Shamay
- Laura Shaver
- Kris Shaw
- Michele Shaw
- Alison Shea
- Dan Shea
- Frank Shoichet
- Steven Sitcov
- Frank Smith
- Vern Smith
- Yana Soriano
- Michael Spiro
- Cassandra Stamm
- Quita St. John
- Howard Stein
- Brian Sullivan
- Natalie Tarantino
- Tim Tesh
- Joan Tierney
- Anna Tolin *
- Colette Tvedt
- John Tymczyszyn
- Roy Umlauf ***
- Shannon Underwood
- Diego Vargas
- Zachary Wagnild
- Richard Warner
- Lauren Wegener
- Kim Williams
- Roblin Williamson
- Barbara Winter
- Aaron Wolff
- Juliana Wong
- Mick Woynarowski
- Jon Zimmerman
- Brian Zuanich
* Past President, Washington Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (WACDL)
** Past President, Washington State Association for Justice (WSAJ)
*** Past President, Washington Defense Trial Lawyers (WDTL)
Community Leaders & Campaign Supporters
- Anthony Beeman
- Randall Berg
- Jill Chelimer
- Adrienne Corcoran
- Jason DeLeo
- Randy Dixon
- Belinda Fu, M.D.
- Raymond Goforth
- Joe Guppy
- Talal Hattar
- Denis Hayes
Attorney
Philanthropist
Environmental Leader - Michelle Hippe
- Amy Hirotaka
- Jay Hitt
- Tiffany Hitt
- Jana Hutchison
- Ross Ishikawa
- Khalil Islam-Zwart
- Steven Katz
- Dan King
- Sally King
- Tonia Lowery
- Leslie Mann
- Randall Michaelis
- Ken Moyle
- Fred Northrup, Jr.
- Brian Oseran
- Karen Pidduck
- Craig Rock
- Ashley Flannegan Russell
- Jesse Russell
- Susie Simpkins
- Perri Sutton
- Mary Taylor
- Andrew Toi
- Brooke Van Peski
- Matt Ward
- Elizabeth Westermann
- Kristin Zwiers
Law Enforcement
Eric Michl