FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
July 20, 2007
Contact: Stephanie Perry
Communications Specialist/Website Editor
206-733-5932; stephaniep@wsba.org
Lori S. Haskell Elected 7th-Central District Governor
Seattle, Washington, July 20, 2007 —The WSBA is pleased to announce that Lori S. Haskell has been elected as the new governor representing the 7th-Central District. At the conclusion of the Board of Governors meeting in September 2007, Ms. Haskell will assume the seat currently held by Lonnie Davis and begin her three-year term of service.
Haskell received her undergraduate degree from the University of Washington. She earned her law degree from Seattle University while still employed in the news department at KOMO TV. During her 10-year career in television, she was a news cinematographer and editor, as well as a writer, producer, and special topics producer. She was admitted to practice in 1986. After leaving television news, Haskell clerked for Chief Justice Jay Rabinowitz of the Alaska Supreme Court. Since entering private practice, she has concentrated solely in the area of tort litigation, with an emphasis on personal injury and employment law.
Haskell served on the Washington State Trial Lawyers Association (WSTLA) Board of Governors for many years in a variety of capacities, including vice-president for public affairs and judicial relations. She authored the WSTLA Diversity Policy, helped to found the first Diversity Committee, and organized Diversity Round Tables where lawyers could meet and share experiences and ideas. She has also represented the WSBA on the Bench Bar Press Committee of Washington, and has served on the WSBA Editorial Advisory Board.
“I see diversity in law as part of the larger access to justice issues that face our justice system, and if we are going to continue as a free and just society, we must maintain a constant vigilance and strive to be inclusive,” Haskell wrote in her nomination materials.
About the Washington State Bar Association
The WSBA is part of the judicial branch, exercising a governmental function authorized by the Washington State Supreme Court to license the state’s 30,600 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 2006-2007 president is Ellen Conedera Dial, of Seattle. The 2006-2007 president-elect is Stanley A. Bastian, of Wenatchee, and the immediate past-president is S. Brooke Taylor, of Port Angeles. 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.
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