FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
July 25, 2006

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Port Angeles Attorney Harry A. Jackson Receives WSBA Local Hero Award

Seattle, Washington, July 25, 2006 — The Washington State Bar Association (WSBA) announces that Port Angeles attorney Harry A. Jackson received the WSBA Local Hero Award, presented to lawyers who have made noteworthy contributions to their communities. WSBA President S. Brooke Taylor presented the award to Mr. Jackson at a luncheon for members of the Clallam County Bar Association during the WSBA Board of Governors meeting on July 21 at the Port Angeles Red Lion Hotel. It was a special pleasure for President Taylor, a Port Angeles native who has practiced law there for 38 years, to present the award to a fellow Port Angelino.

Mr. Jackson, a past president of the Clallam County Bar Association and a current board member of Clallam County Pro Bono Lawyers, is being recognized for his tireless commitment to ensuring equal justice in Washington state, and for his leadership in helping to provide legal services to Clallam County's most vulnerable residents.

A 1956 graduate of the University of California, Berkeley School of Law, Mr. Jackson began his distinguished legal career as a law clerk for the U.S. District Court, Northern District of California from 1956 to 1957. He then went to work as an associate in the San Francisco firm of Chickering & Gregory from 1958 to 1967. From 1967 to 1972, he was the general counsel for Leslie Salt Company, and from 1972 to 1985, was a partner with Landels, Ripley & Diamond; Reilly Jackson & Haile. Mr. Jackson was in private practice in Napa County, California, from 1986 to 1991. In 1992, he moved his practice to Clallam County, where he resides today.

In nominating Mr. Jackson for the award, Clallam County Bar Association President W. Brent Basden wrote: "For those of us who have the pleasure of knowing and working with Harry, we have learned that he has an undeviating commitment to 'community.' This commitment is evidenced by his long-standing involvement and leadership in numerous efforts to expand the availability of legal services to those who are most vulnerable. Harry frequently observes that if those individuals do not have that representation, then we no longer have true freedom."

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The WSBA is part of the judicial branch, exercising a governmental function authorized by the Washington State Supreme Court to license the state's 29,800 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, the WSBA administers the bar admission process, including the bar exam; provides record-keeping and licensing functions; and administers the lawyer-discipline system. 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 its 14-person Board of Governors. There are three governors from the seventh congressional district; one from each of the other eight districts; and three at-large members, one of whom represents the Young Lawyers Division. The 2005-2006 president is S. Brooke Taylor, of Port Angeles, and the 2005-2006 president-elect is Ellen Conedera Dial, of Seattle.

The Board meets regularly (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 23 standing committees; 26 sections; and a Young Lawyers Division, with its many committees.