I am currently the FY 23 WSBA President.  Prior, I am the only attorney in Washington to serve two terms as WSBA Treasurer, and from July 2017 to September 2022, I served as the District 4 Governor, the longest serving WSBA Governor on the Board of Governors.  I have six years of dedicated service to WSBA through the Board of Governors, and have served on numerous committees, workgroups, taskforces, councils, and delegations on behalf of the Washington State Bar Association.  I am honored to be only the second full time governmentally employed attorney to serve as Washington State Bar President!  It is a tremendous honor to get to do so.  

I am employed as a Senior Deputy Prosecuting Attorney working in the Corporate Counsel Division of the Yakima County Prosecuting Attorney's Office.  I primarly provide civil representation to the County Assessor, Auditor, Treasurer, Director of Financial Services, L.E.A.D. Taskforce, Facilities Director, as well as as serve as the Corporate Attorney for the South East Aging and Long Term Care Council of Governments which I helped to form in 2014.  This entity provides very important services to the elderly and clients that need long term assistance.  They serve Asotin, Benton, Franklin, Columbia, Garfield, Kittitas, Yakima and Walla Walla Counties.  

I previously served as a Law Clerk in Yakima County Superior Court for the Honorable Judge James Hutton, Jim Lust, Michael Schwab, and Robert Hackett from 2004-2007.  It was a very invaluable learning experience for me, and I did that as well as worked as a Special Deputy Prosecuting Attorney on various ad valorem property tax matters. 

In law school I received a full ride academic scholarship to Gonzaga School of Law.  While there, I received 3 CALI awards for the highest grades in various classes (Criminal Procedure, Real Estate Transactions & Environmental Law Dispute Resolution).  I graduated Cum Laude from Gonzaga and top 1/3 in my law class.  

Since law school, I'm proud to say that I've earned designation by the Washington State Supreme Court since 2005 for providing pro bono legal assistance for at least 200 or more hours of free or reduced rate legal assistance.  The access to justice and civil needs of Washington Citizens are a real issue facing our State and taxpayers, and I'm proud to do my part to try to address this through free civil legal assistance and help in preparing forms and/or navigativing the legal system for low and moderate mean financially strapped citizens.  

I am an avid Gonzaga Bulldog basketball fan "Go Zags".  I also am an avid Seattle Seahawks fan and Sonics fan.  (Hopefully Seattle gets an NBA team in the near future.)  I am a lifelong Yakima resident, and a proud graduate from A.C. Davis High School and Yakima Valley Community College.