Roger A. Pearce, Program Co-Chair, is a member of Foster Pepper & Shefelman PLLC with over ten years experience practicing in the areas of land use law and land use litigation. He advises private companies, municipalities, and institutions on major development and public infrastructure projects.
Adrienne E. Quinn, Program Co-Chair, a partner at Buck & Gordon LLP, represents developers, citizens, and municipalities in all facets of land use and environmental permitting, administrative hearings, and litigation. She was recently named a ‘Super Lawyer’ by Washington Law & Politics magazine.
Laura Altschul is Director, Government Affairs at T-Mobile USA. She began the telecommunications portion of her career in 1993, when she worked for GTE Mobilenet and a telecommunications consulting firm, managing infrastructure build-outs.
Heather Ballash is a Senior Policy Advisor for the Washington State Department of Community, Trade and Economic Development (CTED). Ms. Ballash previously worked as a planner in the agency’s Growth Management Program, providing technical assistance to counties and cities.
The Hon. Dow Constantine, Special Address, was appointed to the Metropolitan King County Council in 2002 and represents the communities of West Seattle, White Center, Burien and Vashon Island. Previously, he was elected to the House of Representatives and the Senate where he served as vice chair of the Senate Ways and Means Committee and vice chair of the Judiciary Committee, as well as being a member of both the Natural Resources and Rules committees.
Barbara Dykes is Chief Civil Deputy for the Snohomish County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office. Previously she was the head of its Land Use Unit, a unit of nine attorneys providing land use advice and handling land use litigation for Snohomish County. Ms. Dykes has been with the prosecutor’s office for 12 years, handling all types of GMA and general land use issues on behalf of the County.
Ann M. Gygi emphasizes land development, real estate, and environmental law in her practice at Hillis Clark Martin & Peterson, PS. Previously she worked in government relations and public affairs for the Washington State Convention Center.
Duana Kolouskova is an attorney with Johns Monroe Mitsunaga PLLC, representing a wide range of landowners and land developers in all aspects of land use and environmental law. Previously she practiced with the land use division of the Snohomish County Prosecuting Attorney Office.
Molly A. Lawrence recently joined Buck & Gordon LLP from Preston Gates & Ellis LLP. She represents a wide range of private and municipal clients in public-private development agreements, developing and implementing permitting strategy for medium and largescale projects, and litigating before administrative hearings boards and in state and federal court regarding land use and permitting issues.
A. W. “Sandy” Mackie is a partner at Perkins Coie where he practices land use, environmental and municipal law. His clients have included a number of Counties and private companies dealing with complex permitting and Growth Management related issues.
Joe Mentor, Jr., the Mentor Law Group, PLLC, concentrates his practice in the areas of water and natural resources development. He works for a wide variety of clients in the private, public and nonprofit sectors and recently developed and implemented water supply and natural resources mitigation strategies for Trendwest Resorts’ MountainStar Master Planned Resort in Roslyn, WA.
John R. Moffat is Chief Civil Deputy, Skagit County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office, in Mt. Vernon, Washington.
Joel R. Paisner, of Counsel at Ater Wynne LLP, works with companies, municipalities and cooperatives in developing, siting, building and operating communication networks including broadband, wireless and cable networks. He has served as in-house counsel to InterNAP Network Services, and as Vice President of WinFirst, one of the first Fiber-to-the-Home cable overbuilders.
Richard M. Peterson is a partner at Hillis Clark Martin & Peterson, PS. His practice areas include land use and environmental law, advising individuals, community organizations, and private companies, and working closely with local, state, and federal officials.
Michael Rossotto is a sole
practitioner with nearly twenty
years of experience in environmental,
land use, water and energy
matters in the Pacific Northwest.
He served for five years as Legal
Director of the Washington
Environmental Council, where he
served as lead counsel in WEC’s
successful litigation of Skagit
County’s critical areas ordinance as
applied to agricultural lands.
Galen G. Schuler is a partner at Perkins Coie. His practice emphasizes environmental and natural resource management, Indian law and cultural resources, land use regulation, and litigation.
Richard M. Stephens is a partner at Groen Stephens & Klinge, LLP, where he focuses his practice on representing property owners, builders and developers with land use and environmental issues.
Daniel M. Waggoner is a partner at Davis Wright Tremaine LLP where he serves as Co-Chair of the firm’s Communications, Media, and Information Technology Departments. He has been involved in many major communications and media issues throughout the country.
J. Tayloe Washburn is Managing Partner and former Chair of the Land Use/Environmental Practice Group at Foster Pepper & Shefelman PLLC. He is an instructor at the University of Washington Law School in the annual course “Siting Controversial Land Use Projects” and has extensive experience in counseling and representing public and private clients on GMA issues.
Jeffrey S. Weber of Buck & Gordon LLP assists clients in obtaining permits and approvals for a wide variety of development projects.
Dave Williams is a Municipal Policy Associate at the Association of Washington Cities responsible for issues in the legislature and among client cities in the areas of land use, the environment, water and community development.
Grace T. Yuan, a partner at Preston Gates & Ellis LLP, practices in the areas of land use, municipal and education law. Ms. Yuan successfully defended one of the ordinances in the first case challenging the legality and constitutionality of impact fees in the State of Washington. |
