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FEATURES
CONTENTS
DEPARTMENTS
The Pierce County Lawyer is published as a service to the membership of the Tacoma-Pierce County Bar Association
2024 BOARD OF TRUSTEES
Catherine Case, President
Elizabeth Johnson, President-Elect
Desiree Hosannah, Secretary-Treasurer
Heather Swann, Immediate Past President
Patrick Brown, President, Young Lawyers Section
Hannah Gurewitz, Family Law Section Liaison
Nina Caldwell, Trustee
Nichole Fisher, Trustee
Richard Wooster, Trustee
Michelle Luna, Trustee
Brad Hashimoto, Trustee
Jessica Campbell, Trustee
*Amity Bjork, Criminal Law Section Liaison
*Melisa Evangelos, Tacomaprobono Liaison
*Desiree Hosannah, Minority Bar Association Liaison
*Leslie Bottimore, Collaborative Law Liaison
*Nichole Fisher, WA Women Lawyers Liaison
*Judge Diana Kiesel, *Judge Susan Adams, *Presiding Commissioner Philip Thornton, Judicial Liaisons, Pierce Co. Superior Court *Presiding Judge Kevin McCann, Judicial Liaison, Pierce Co. District Court *Commissioner Randall Hansen, Judicial Liaison, Tacoma Municipal Court *Todd Bloom, WSBA, Governor 6th District Liaison
*John Weaver, ret., Law School Liaison
(* non-voting members)
PIERCE COUNTY LAWYER MAGAZINE COMMITTEE
Editor: Elizabeth Vincent
John Cain, Richard DeJean, Antoni Froehling, Shannon Hadeed, Nigel Malden, Salvador Mungia, David Shelvey, David Smith, David Snell, Carlos Sosa, Christopher Walsh, John Weaver
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Lincoln Day Banquet
By Elizabeth Vincent and David Snell
12
Lincoln Day Banquet Presentation
By Chief Justice Steven González
18
Meet the New 2024 Board of Trustees
23
RE: Toward a Better Future
By Mark Adams
24
Message from the Superior Court Judges: Judges Chushcoff, Murphy, Johnson, and Leaderson
28
Therapeutic Courts
By Judges Drew Henke and Dee Sonntag
30
When We Had Two Tacoma’s
By David Snell
34
Different vs Unusual
By David Shelvey
36
Titan’s Last Trip
By Nigel Malden
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Inside this Issue
By Elizabeth Vincent
7
President’s Page
By Catherine Case
9
Briefly...
A Word from the Executive Director By Kit Kasner
33
New & Young Lawyers Section: Law Day 2024 By Patrick Brown and Neil Stubbs
41
Law Library News
By Stephen Seely
42
Tacomaprobono Community Lawyers By Laurie Davenport
46
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