Guide to Minority Bar Associations

As of March 2008

Directory of Minority Bar Leaders with Contact Information

Asian Bar Association of Washington
www.abaw.org

Andrew Ko, Co-president (1/2008 – 12/2008)

Jill Otake, Co-president (1/2008 - 12/2008)

Kaustuv M. Das, Joint Asian Judicial Evaluation Committee Chair (through 12/2008)

Cardozo Society

Aric Bomsztyk, Co-chair

Aaron Kiviat, Co-chair

GLBT Bar Association of Washington
www.q-law.org/

Beth A. Barrett Bloom, President (4/2007 - 4/2008)
president@q-law.org

Dainen N. Penta, President-elect

Yvonne Curtis, Judicial Evaluation Committee Chair (4/2007 - 4/2008)

King Co. Washington Women Lawyers

Tracy Sarich, President (1/2008 - 12/2008)

Beth E. Terrell, President-elect

Charlotte Clark-Mahoney, Judicial Evaluation Committee Chair

Korean-American Bar Association of Washington
www.kaba-washington.org/

Candice Eun-Lyi Kim, President (2/2008 - 1/2009)

Janet Kim Lin, President-Elect (2/2008 - 1/2009)

Kaustuv M. Das, Joint Asian Judicial Evaluation Committee Chair (through 12/2008)

Latina/o Bar Association of Washington
www.lbaw.org

Ciarelle Jimenez Valdez, President (1/2008 – 12/2008)

Nicole McGrath, President-elect

Fé Lopez, Co-chair, Judicial Evaluation Committee (2008-2010)
Phone: 206-398-4101
fe.f.lopez@lbaw.org 

Patricia Lally, Co-chair, Judicial Evaluation Committee (2008-2010)




Loren Miller Bar Association
www.lmba.net

Craig A. Sims, President (6/2007 – 6/2008)

J.D. Smith, President-elect

Shaakirrah Sanders, Judicial Evaluation Committee Chair (2008)

Mother Attorneys Mentoring Association of Seattle (MAMAS)
www.mamaseattle.org/

Rachel S. Black, President

A.J. Tangeman, Vice-president

Mary R. Knack, Director of Membership

Northwest Indian Bar Association
www.nwiba.org

Naomi Stacy, President (10/2008 – 9/2008)

Pierce County Minority Bar Association
www.orgsites.com/wa/pcmba

Tracy Flood, President (1/2006 – until further notice)
 

Naomi Kim, Vice-president

South Asian Bar Association of Washington
www.sabaw.org

Pallavi Mehta Wahi, President (11/2007 - 10/2008)

Brahmy Poologasingham, President-elect

Venkat Balasubramani, Immediate Past-president

Kaustuv M. Das, Joint Asian Judicial Evaluation Committee Chair (through 12/2008)

Vietnamese American Bar Association of Washington
www.vabaw.com/

Thuy Nguyen-Leeper, President (11/2007 – 10/2008)

Kaustuv M. Das, Joint Asian Judicial Evaluation Committee Chair (through 12/2008)

Washington Association of Attorneys with Disabilities

Shawn Michael Murinko, President (6/2007 - 6/2008)

Washington Women Lawyers
www.wwl.org

Janet Chung, President (10/2007 - 10/2008)

Amy Robinson, President-Elect

WWL Judicial Evaluation Ratings 

King County Superior Court
Charlotte Clark-Mahoney, Judicial Evaluation Committee Chair

Pierce County Superior Court
Gretchen Leanderson, Judicial Evaluation Committee Chair

Snohomish County Superior Court
Michele O'Loane, Judicial Evaluation Committee Chair

Spokane County Superior Court
Marcia M. Meade, Judicial Evaluation Committee Chair

All other requests for judicial evaluation ratings should be directed to:

Marcia M. Meade, Vice-president of Judicial Affairs

Mailing address for all original WWL applications:

P.O. Box 2026
Seattle, WA 98111-2026
206-622-5585 

Additional information about WWL's judicial evaluation process may be found at www.wwl.org.