Randy Gordon

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Category: Washington

Randy Gordon is a 1978 graduate of Harvard Law School, where he served on the Board of Student Advisers, the Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review, and founded the still extant orientation program, received his B.A. degree in 1975 from the University of Michigan, where he was admitted to Phi Beta Kappa in his junior year and was honored with the Branstrom Prize, the Bain-Swiggett Prize for poetry, and as a James B. Angell Scholar.

Since his admission to the Washington State Bar in 1978, he has been active in bar activities and has been deeply committed to public education (particularly education of young people) about the law, maintenance of high ethical standards for lawyers, and assuring that every citizen has access to justice. He currently serves as Eighth District Governor for the Washington State Bar Association which, among other things oversees discipline and ethical standards for Washington’s 28,000 lawyers. Randy is on the Budget and Audit Committee of the State Bar; WSBA employs a staff of 125 and has an annual budget of $15 million budget and is a creature of the Washington State Supreme Court.

Washington's Eighth Congressional District includes the communities around the East Side of Lake Washington, and the southeastern communities of King and Pierce counties and includes communities from Bellevue to Snoqualmie Pass, and from northeast King County to Mount Rainier.

The Eighth District includes the following communities: Ashford (part), Auburn (part), Beaux Arts Village, Bellevue (part), Black Diamond, Bonney Lake, Buckley, Carbonado, Carnation, Clyde Hill, Covington, Duvall (part), Eatonville (part), Elbe (part), Enumclaw, Fall City, Graham (part), Hobart, Hunts Point, Issaquah, Kent (part), Kirkland (part), Longmire, Maple Valley, Medina, Mercer Island, Newcastle, North Bend, Orting (part), Paradise, Preston, Puyallup (part), Ravensdale, Redmond (part), Renton (part), Sammamish, Snoqualmie, Snoqualmie Pass (part), South Prairie, Spanaway (part), Sumner (part), Tacoma (part), Wilkeson , Woodinville (part), Yarrow Point.