Board of Directors

 

 

• Jill Mullins, President: Jill is an attorney in the Benton County Prosecutor's Office-Child Support Enforcement Division.  Jill is the out-going chair of the QLaw Foundation GLBT Legal Clinic Committee, which works on providing legal information and advice addressing the intersection of the law and LGBT lives. Jill recently re-located to the TriCities and is exploring the GLBT community on the East side of the mountains. 
• Jennie Laird, President-Elect: Jennie is an attorney at Law Offices of Michael Bugni & Associates, PLLC. She is also an adjunct professor at Seattle University. Her practice focuses on representing survivors of domestic violence and on the rights of nontraditional families. In 2003 she received the WSBA Neville Pro Bono award and was the 2005-06 Chair of the King County Bar Family Law Section. Jennie volunteers for the Legal Voice and has presented at regional and national training seminars on family law, domestic violence and trial litigation. She serves as a pro tem Family Law Commissioner for King County Superior Court.
• David J. Ward, Vice President: David is Legal and Legislative Counsel at Legal Voice.  When David isn't devoting his energy to social justice work, he and his partner John Bailey enjoy the arts and travelling. 
• Dave Iseminger, Treasurer: Dave is a Law Clerk at the Washington State Court of Appeals, Division II.  Dave has a passion for LGBT issues and an incredible memory, providing him with an uncanny ability to tell you the status of LGBT issues on state and federal levels off the top of his head.  He and his partner Shawn spend their free time travelling through Washington and Oregon. 
• Sher Kung, Secretary: Sher is an associate with the firm's Litigation practice, focusing on Patent Litigation at Perkins Coie. She was a Perkins Coie Legal Fellow from 2009-2010 at the American Civil Liberties Union. Sher is proficient in Mandarin; conversational in French.  She also enjoys teaching and playing piano; running marathons; and biking.
• Samuel Castic, Past-President:  Sam is an associate in the commercial litigation and privacy and data security practices at K&L Gates, LLP.  Prior to joining K&L Gates, Sam worked as a clinical intern for the American Civil Liberties Union LGBT Project and as a McCleary Law Fellow with the Human Rights Campaign. Sam spends his free time playing rugby with the Seattle Quake, cooking, hanging out at coffeeshops, and playing with his rescue dog Madge. 
• Andy Sachs: Andy is an attorney at Wrenn Law Group where he practices complex commercial litigation, insurance recovery, and environmental litigation.  Andy has significant trial and courtroom experience, both in state and federal court. He also dedicates time to an active pro bono practice that focuses on cases involving dependent children and termination of parental rights for abused and neglected children.  In addition to his position on the QLaw Foundation Board, he currently sits on the Board of Directors for theQLaw Assocation , Equal Rights Washington, and Washington State CASA.  In his free time Andy trains for distance triathlons, having completed two full Ironman races, and can usually be found skiing or backpacking in the mountains on the weekends.
• Danielle Tovar: Danielle is a student at Edmonds Community College and is working to get her degree as a paralegal. She was inspired to get more involved with equal human rights when she discovered her own child was transgender. She leads and participates in a support group for parents with transgender children at Seattle Children’s Hospital and volunteers for the Gender Spectrum Family Organization.
• Denise Diskin: Denise runs a solo law practice, Law Offices of J. Denise Diskin, concentrating in employment law, family law, and GLBT law. Denise is the chair of the QLaw Foundation GLBT Legal Clinic Committee.  She has served on the committee of the Legal Clinic for the past several years, as well as working with the Washington State Association for Justice and volunteering with the Pacific Coast Labor and Employment Law Conference Planning Committee, the King County Bar Association, Legal Voice, and the Legal Aid Society – Employment Law Center.
• Gabe Verdugo: Gabe is a recent graduation of the University of Washington School of Law where he was the Co-President of Outlaws, the GLBT Law Student Association.  Gabe has also been an active member the QLaw Foundation GLBT Legal Clinic. He lives with his partner Adam Forcier, and in the midst of his final year of law school, he and his partner got married.
• Professor Lisa Kelly: Lisa is a professor at the University of Washington School of Law She directs the Children and Youth Advocacy Clinic and teaches Family Law and Child Advocacy. She is the co-author of Adoption Law: Theory, Policy and Practice (2006). She works closely with the Court Improvement Training Academy. Professor Kelly chairs the Statewide Children's Representation Workgroup established by the Washington Supreme Court Commission on Children in Foster Care. She is the Bobbe and Jon Bridge Endowed Professor of Child Advocacy and served as Associate Dean at the UW Law School from 2007-2009.