FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
November 3, 2000

CONTACT
Allison L. Parker
206-733-5932
allisonp@wsba.org 

Seattle, Washington, November 3, 2000 — Tacoma lawyer Daryl L. Graves has been appointed by the Washington State Bar Association (WSBA) Board of Governors to serve as Treasurer of the Association. As treasurer, he chairs the WSBA Budget and Audit Committee, which oversees the WSBA's $13 million annual budget. Mr. Graves, who was elected to the Board of Governors by WSBA members in the ninth congressional district, is serving the second year of his three-year term on the Board.

A graduate of the University of Puget Sound School of Law (now Seattle University School of Law), Mr. Graves is a partner in the firm of Graves & Treyz PLLC. His practice emphasizes plaintiffs' personal injury, medical and dental negligence, and criminal defense. Mr. Graves is a frequent speaker at continuing legal education seminars, and has served as an adjunct law professor at the University of Puget Sound (Seattle University). He is a member of the Tacoma-Pierce County Bar Association, Washington Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, and is an Eagle Member of the Washington Trial Lawyers Association.

The Washington State Bar Association is a private, nonprofit organization authorized by the Washington State Supreme Court to license the state's 26,000 lawyers. The WSBA both regulates lawyers under the authority of the Court and serves its members as a professional association — all without public funding. As a regulatory agency, it administers the bar exam, provides record-keeping and licensing functions, and administers the lawyer discipline program.

As a professional association, the WSBA provides continuing legal education for attorneys, in addition to numerous other educational and member-service activities.

The governance of the WSBA is vested in the 11-person Board of Governors elected by the members. There are three governors from the seventh congressional district, and one from each of the other eight districts. The Board meets every six weeks at various locations around the state, and its meetings are open to the public. Much of the work of the Bar is carried out through its 28 standing committees; 22 sections; and a Young Lawyers Division, with its many committees.