1.City attorney Ann Davison made two significant announcements via late-afternoon press release on Friday. First, she announced that the city’s criminal division chief, Natalie Walton-Anderson—whose last day was Friday—has issued a “standing affidavit of prejudice” against Seattle Municipal Judge...
The topic first hit book form in 2007 with the spiritually fictional “Until the End of the Ninth” (Beth Bollinger, Rooftop Publishing). But Vickrey, a physician assistant at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center who splits time between West Seattle and Port Townsend, took a wholly factual approach, ...
The Office of City Attorney is crucial to the effective operations of the city government. The City Attorney has a staff of about 200 and is responsible for prosecuting misdemeanor crimes in the city; these crimes include domestic violence assault, DUI, firearm violations, theft, menacing and ha...
Last November, Pete Holmes unseated City Attorney Tom Carr—and announced that the city would no longer prosecute marijuana misdemeanors. This doesn’t affect felony possession (over 40 grams), which falls under state jurisdiction, nor the thousands of busts per year in the rest of the state....
Appointed assistant attorney general for the state’s civil-rights division in 1957, Luke won a position on Seattle’s City Council five years later, at age 38. He helped pass Seattle’s open housing ordinance, with provisions against racial discrimination, and earned praise for leading with op...
Lawyers representing the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the city of Seattle met in court Tuesday for the first time.
At the trial—even though she was 36 and married to a man and supposedly“straight enough to not think about whether I was straight”—she felt an attraction to a female defense attorney, a true crush, unavoidable and overwhelming. Leaving, she heard a refrain from her sandals on the ...
Lisa is a passionate writer and reader of stories that stretch the imagination and reveal important truths about the world around us. Trained as an attorney, Lisa moved from the legal world into the literary one nearly a decade ago in search of stories less constrained by reality. The literary...
She attended the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, won the Maazel/Vilar International Conductors’ Competition in 2002 and was hired as the New York Philharmonic’s assistant conductor and later associate. Zhang became music director of the Si...
Bruce Harrell was born and raised in Seattle, worked as an attorney before serving on City Council, and is currently mayor – Seattle's first Asian American, first biracial, and second Black mayor. He grew up in Seattle’s redlined Central District, his African American father worked for th...