William Henry Gates II,better known as Bill Gates Sr.,was an American attorney,philanthropist,and civic leader. He was the founder of the law firm Shidler McBroom &Gates,and also served as president of both the Seattle King County and Washington State Bar associations. He was the father of Bill Gates,co-founder of Microsoft.
Warren Minor Christopher was an American lawyer,diplomat and politician. During Bill Clinton's first term as president,he served as the 63rd United States Secretary of State.
Viet D. Dinh is a lawyer and a legal scholar who is Chief Legal and Policy Officer of Fox Corporation and who served as an Assistant Attorney General of the United States from 2001 to 2003,under the presidency of George W. Bush. Born in Saigon,in former South Vietnam,he was the chief architect of the USA PATRIOT Act and is a former member of the Board of Directors of News Corporation.
The Harvard Law Review is a law review published by an independent student group at Harvard Law School. According to the Journal Citation Reports,the Harvard Law Review's 2015 impact factor of 4.979 placed the journal first out of 143 journals in the category "Law". It is published monthly from November through June,with the November issue dedicated to covering the previous year's term of the Supreme Court of the United States. The journal also publishes the online-only Harvard Law Review Forum,a rolling journal of scholarly responses to the main journal's content. The law review is one of three honors societies at the law school,along with the Harvard Legal Aid Bureau and the Board of Student Advisors. Students who are selected for more than one of these three organizations may only join one.
Volunteer Park is a 48.3-acre (19.5 ha) park in the Capitol Hill neighborhood of Seattle,Washington,United States.
The Emerald Necklace consists of a 1,100-acre chain of parks linked by parkways and waterways in Boston and Brookline,Massachusetts. It was designed by landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted,and gets its name from the way the planned chain appears to hang from the "neck" of the Boston peninsula. In 1989,the Emerald Necklace was designated as a Boston Landmark by the Boston Landmarks Commission.
Robert Marion McKenna is an American lawyer and politician who served as the 17th attorney general of Washington from 2005 to 2013 after serving on the Metropolitan King County Council from 1996 to 2005. A member of the Republican Party,he ran for Governor of Washington in 2012,losing to Democrat Jay Inslee.
Rajat Kumar Gupta is an Indian-American businessman and convicted felon who,as CEO,was the first foreign-born managing director of management consultancy firm McKinsey &Company from 1994 to 2003. In 2012,he was convicted for insider trading and spent two years in jail. Gupta was a board member of corporations including Goldman Sachs,Procter &Gamble and American Airlines,and an advisor to non-profits such as the Bill &Melinda Gates Foundation and The Global Fund to Fight AIDS,Tuberculosis and Malaria. He is the co-founder of the Indian School of Business,American India Foundation,New Silk Route and Scandent Solutions.
Eric P. Liu is an American writer,former civil servant,and founder of Citizen University,a non-profit organization promoting civics education and awareness. Liu served as Deputy Assistant to President Clinton for Domestic Policy at the White House between 1999 and 2000. He served as Speechwriter and Director of Legislative Affairs for the National Security Council at the White House from 1993 to 1994. President Obama nominated him in January 2015 to serve on the board of directors of the federal Corporation for National and Community Service and he was confirmed by the U.S. Senate;his term expired in December 2017.
The Constitutional Law PAC is a political action committee formed in the state of Washington to help elect candidates to the Washington State Supreme Court and Washington State Court of Appeals. The Constitutional Law PAC has a center-right orientation.
Andrew Alper was the President of the New York City Economic Development Corporation (NYCEDC).
Wesley Carl Uhlman is an American politician who served as the 47th mayor of Seattle,Washington.
David Bonderman is an American billionaire businessman. He is the founding partner of TPG Capital,and its Asian affiliate,Newbridge Capital. He is also one of the minority owners of the NBA's Boston Celtics as well as the co-founder and co-majority owner of the Seattle Kraken of the National Hockey League. As of October 2021,he has an estimated net worth of US$4.5 billion.
Betty Binns Fletcher was an American lawyer and judge. She served as a United States Circuit Judge of the San Francisco-based United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit between 1979 and 2012. Fletcher was one of the first women to become a partner in a major American law firm and the second woman to be appointed to the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.
Bruce Allen Harrell is an American politician and attorney serving as the 57th and current mayor of Seattle,Washington. He served as a member of the Seattle City Council from District 2 from 2016 to 2020. Elected to the council in 2007 and reelected in 2011 and 2015,he did not run in 2019. In 2016,he was chosen as president of the city council. He also served as acting mayor of Seattle from September 13 to 18,2017. He was elected mayor in his own right in the 2021 Seattle mayoral election,winning with 59 percent of the vote,becoming the second Black mayor since Norm Rice,and the first Asian American mayor of the city.
Stewardship Partners is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization based in Seattle,Washington,United States with a mission to help private landowners restore and preserve the natural landscapes of Washington State. They have programs that promote incentive-based tools to encourage landowners and businesses to participate in voluntary conservation practices. The goal is to restore fish and wildlife habitat,improve water quality,and protect open space while maintaining the working landscape of farms,forestland,and communities throughout the state.
Charles Bayley Adams was a Vermont politician,judge and attorney who served as President of the Vermont State Senate and a Justice of the Vermont Supreme Court.
Stanley C. Soderland was a judge of the King County Superior Court,who clerked for Justice William O. Douglas of the U.S. Supreme Court.
Merritt "Allan" Pomeroy –was the forty-third mayor of Seattle,Washington serving from June 1,1952 to June 4,1956.
Evan Lynn Schwab is an American attorney who served as law clerk to Justice William O. Douglas of the Supreme Court of the United States during the 1963 Term.
