FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
September 17, 2007

Contact: Stephanie Perry
Communications Specialist/Website Editor
206-733-5932; stephaniep@wsba.org

Dean Kellye Testy Receives 2007 President's Award

Seattle, Washington, September 17, 2007 — Ellen Conedera Dial, president of the Washington State Bar Association (WSBA) is pleased to announce that Seattle University School of Law Dean Kellye Testy will be honored with the 2007 President's Award. This award is given annually in recognition of special accomplishment or service to the WSBA during the term of the current president. President Dial will present the award at the President's Dinner, to be held on September 19, 2007. Dean Testy will also be recognized at the WSBA Annual Awards Dinner the following evening, at the Grand Hyatt Seattle Hotel.

Testy took office as dean of Seattle University School of Law in February 2005. She joined the Seattle University School of Law faculty in 1992, after serving as a law clerk to the Honorable Jesse Eschbach of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. With the exception of a year as visiting professor at Indiana University, she has been with the school ever since. Prior to being named dean, she served as the associate dean for academic administration, and served as a Wismer Professor from 2001-03. Testy co-founded the law school's Access to Justice Institute, and founded both the Seattle Journal for Social Justice and the Center on Corporations, Law & Society. She also serves as co-director of the Wismer Center for the Study of Justice.

In addition, Testy is a member of the university's Faith & Justice Committee; a former member of the Development Committee for a J.D./M.B.A. program; a current member of the law school's Self-Study Committee; and a past member of the university's Strategic Planning Committee.

Testy has published many articles and book chapters on corporate governance and other business law and economic justice issues. She is also active as a consultant and expert witness on a variety of corporate and securities law matters, in both state and federal court. Her writing has been published in many journals, including the Duke Journal of Law & Contemporary Problems, Northwestern Law Review, the New York Journal of International and Comparative Law, California Law Review, and George Law Review.

In addition to teaching and writing, Testy is a frequent speaker on topics such as "Contracts and Socioeconomics" at the Association of American Law Schools annual meeting in Washington, D.C.; "Weaving Social Justice into the Law School Fabric" at the Society of American Law Teachers annual meeting, New York University School of Law; and "Adding Values to Corporate Law" at the University of Georgia Conference on Teaching Corporate Law.

Dean Testy is known for her caring involvement not just with students, the law school, and the university, but the legal community and the community at large. She actively moves forward her commitment to justice and finds ways to be of service. Said President Dial: "Dean Kellye Testy is a leader with a vision and an absolute conviction — that a world in which justice is available to all can be a reality. She inspires us with her strong commitment to social justice and her abundant generosity of spirit."

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 30,700 lawyers. The WSBA both regulates lawyers under the authority of the Court and serves its members as a professional association „o 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-largemembers, 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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