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X-WR-CALNAME:Defender Initiative Conference 2026—Next steps with Defender
  Standards and Funding
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DESCRIPTION:The new Washington Supreme Court Rules on Defender Caseload lim
 its are leading to major positive changes and also challenges in funding n
 eeds.  This conference will address legislative efforts for improved state
  funding\, litigation including defenders declaring unavailability\, and d
 eveloping alternatives to traditional prosecution.  Representatives from t
 he Washington Office of Public Defense will discuss their recent survey as
  well as information about their existing funding efforts.  Attendees will
  explore the role of public defense in public safety discussions.\n\n \n\n
 6.25 hours of Washington State Bar CLE Other Credits Approved\n\n \n\nThe 
 Defender Initiative\n\n2026 Next Steps with Defender Standards and Funding
 \n\nSeattle University School of Law | Room C-5\n\nFriday\, June 26\, 2026
 \n\n \n\nRobert C. Boruchowitz |Professor From Practice and Director of th
 e Defender Initiative\n\nAgenda:\n\n \n\n8:45 AM – 9:00 AM | Welcome\n\n
 Paul Holland| Associate Dean for Experiential Learning and Associate Profe
 ssor of Law\; Director of the Ronald A. Peterson Law Clinic\n\n9:00 AM –
  9:30 AM | Discussion of Recent National Events Related to Public Defense\
 n\nRobert C. Boruchowitz\n\n9:30 AM – 10:30 AM | What Happened in the 20
 26 Legislature and What We Can Do for 2027\n\nDiscussion with Jamie Peders
 en | Washington State Senator\, 43rd District\n\nModerator: Neil Beaver | 
 Lobbyist and Political Consultant\n\n10:30 AM – 10:45 AM | Break\n\n10:4
 5 AM – 12:00 PM | Office of Public Defense Reports\n\nDiscussion of what
  the Office of Public Defender plans for its report to the Court in three 
 years.\n\nReport on OPD’s recent survey and information received from lo
 cal jurisdictions seeking funding under RCW 10.101.\n\nOffice of Public De
 fense Staff:\n\nElizabeth (Liz) Mustin | WA State Office of Public Defense
 \n\nGeoff Hulsey | Office of Public Defense\n\n12:00 PM – 1:15 PM | Buff
 et Lunch Service\n\nLocation: Second Floor Gallery\n\n1:15 PM – 2:15 PM 
 | Diversion Programs Supporting public safety\, helping clients\, and redu
 cing the size of the increase needed for more defenders.\n\nLisa Daugaard 
 | Co-Executive Director\, Purpose Dignity Action\n\nMaia Vanyo | Deputy Ch
 ief\, Whatcom County Defender\n\nVanessa Martin | Whatcom County LEAD & LE
 AD Bureau Site Advisor\n\nChad Winfrey | Specialist\, State of Washington\
 n\n2:15 PM – 3:15 PM | Discussion: Another Perspective on State Funding 
 of Public Defense\n\nApril Berg | Representative\, District 44\, Position 
 2\n\nStrom Peterson | Representative\, District 21\, Position 1\n\nAdan Es
 pino\, Jr. | Lobbyist & Principal\, The Cascadia Group\n\nModerator: Jason
  Schwarz | Director\, Snohomish County Office of Public Defense\n\n3:15 PM
  – 3:30 PM | Break\n\n3:30 PM – 4:30 PM | Litigation on Workload and R
 elated Issues Discussion includes the lawsuit brought by the counties agai
 nst the state and defenders declaring unavailability.\n\nToby Marshall | P
 laintiffs’ Counsel in In Re M.E. and Wilbur v Mt. Vernon\n\nDavid Montes
  | ACLU Staff Attorney (Leads the lawsuit against Yakima County for not pr
 oviding counsel to some accused persons)\n\nPaul Lawrence | Senior Litigat
 ion Partner at Pacifica Law Group (Leads the counties’ suit against the 
 state)\n\n4:30 PM – 5:00 PM | Concluding Session\n\nBrainstorming Discus
 sion of Plans for Organizing for 2027.\n\n \n\nFaculty & Speaker Biographi
 es:\n\n \n\nRobert C. Boruchowitz | Professor & Director of the Defender I
 nitiative Robert C. Boruchowitz was an attorney at The Defender Associatio
 n\, a non-profit public defender office in King County\, for 33 years. He 
 is leading an initiative at the law school to advance efforts to improve p
 ublic defense representation in Washington and other states. He has handle
 d appeals at all levels of the state and federal courts and argued the Sel
 ing v. Young case in the U.S. Supreme Court\, challenging the application 
 of Washington’s "sexually violent predator" law. He was lead counsel on 
 a Washington Court of Appeals decision that due process requires that chil
 dren in truancy proceedings have counsel (Bellevue v. E.S.\, 2009). That c
 ase began in the Youth Advocacy Clinic and two clinic students worked with
  him on the appeal. The Washington Supreme Court reversed the decision\, b
 ut many counties reduced the number of truancy filings before that decisio
 n.\n\nFor 28 years\, he served as The Defender Association’s Director. H
 e established there the Death Penalty Assistance Center and the Racial Dis
 parity Project. Founding president of the Washington Defender Association 
 and a former member of the Executive Committee of the American Council of 
 Chief Defenders\, he has been instrumental in developing defender standard
 s that have been endorsed by the Washington State Bar Association and the 
 American Bar Association. He led a subcommittee that developed both Perfor
 mance Guidelines for Criminal Defense Representation and Standards for Ind
 igent Defense Services that were adopted by the Washington State Bar Assoc
 iation. Professor Boruchowitz is chair of the Standards Committee of the W
 SBA Council on Public Defense (CPD). The Washington State Bar Board of Gov
 ernors adopted recommendations from the CPD that led to the Supreme Court 
 adopting rules limiting defender caseloads.\n\nProfessor Boruchowitz is co
 -chair of the Workloads Committee for the National Association for Public 
 Defense and a member of the NAPD System Builders Committee. He serves on t
 he American Bar Association Indigent Advisory Group. He is an emeritus mem
 ber of the Washington Minority and Justice Commission. He led a committee 
 that wrote a caseload statement for the ACCD. In 2003\, he was a Soros Sen
 ior Fellow working on access to counsel in misdemeanor and juvenile cases.
 \n\nProfessor Boruchowitz was an expert witness in the Hurrell-Harring cas
 e in New York that settled with an agreement by the state to develop casel
 oad standards\, provide counsel at all arraignment hearings\, and improve 
 the quality of public defense representation in five counties. He was appo
 inted counsel on appeal in State v. K.A.B.\, 14 Wn. App. 2d 677(2020)\, wi
 nning reversal of a juvenile conviction because of ineffective assistance 
 of counsel and an erroneous trial court ruling. The prosecutor agreed to d
 ismiss the case upon remand.\n\nThe first project of the Defender Initiati
 ve was a joint effort with the National Association of Criminal Defense La
 wyers to conduct a comprehensive investigation of misdemeanor public defen
 se in the United States. That project produced a report\, "Minor Crimes\, 
 Massive Waste: The Terrible Toll of America's Broken Misdemeanor Courts". 
 The Initiative had a grant from the U.S. Department of Justice to work in 
 conjunction with The Sixth Amendment Center to provide assessments and tec
 hnical assistance to improve public defense services nationally. The grant
  supported reports on Utah\, Mississippi\, Illinois\, and New Hampshire.\n
 \nThe Initiative received grant funding from the Open Society Foundation t
 o improve access to counsel in misdemeanor courts. The Initiative has work
 ed in Washington\, Kentucky\, New Hampshire\, and South Carolina. Separate
  funding supported a joint assessment project with 6AC in Wayne County\, M
 ichigan\, that resulted in transforming the defender program there.\n\n \n
 \nNeil Beaver | Political Consultant and Contract Lobbyist Neil Beaver is 
 a Political Consultant and contract Lobbyist. He has managed and consulted
  on statewide ballot measures to stop Initiatives that would harm the stat
 e’s ability to raise revenue and worked on a campaign to establish more 
 restrictive campaign finance laws. He worked for a number of legislative c
 andidates in Eastern and Western Washington. His lobby efforts are focused
  on Climate Change\, Wildfire\, Wildlife\, managing the state’s solid wa
 ste streams\, and helping organizations that represent underserved populat
 ions.\n\n \n\nRepresentative April Berg | Washington State Representative\
 , 44th Legislative District Representative April Berg was elected in 2020 
 to represent Washington’s 44th Legislative District\, which includes the
  cities of Mill Creek and Snohomish\, as well as parts of Everett and unin
 corporated Snohomish County. She serves as Chair of the House Finance Comm
 ittee\, where she oversees legislation related to state and local revenues
 \, and as a member of the House Appropriations Committee\, where she helps
  develop the state’s operating budget.\n\nRepresentative Berg also serve
 s on the Economic and Revenue Forecast Council\, the Joint Legislative Aud
 it and Review Committee\, and the National Conference of State Legislature
 s Budget and Revenue Committee. She was recently appointed to the Milliona
 ire Income Tax Implementation Advisory Group and serves on the board of th
 e Economic Opportunity Institute. She was the first Black and youngest stu
 dent body president in the history of Oregon State University.\n\n \n\nLis
 a Daugaard | Co-Executive Director of Policy\, Purpose Dignity Action (PDA
 ) Lisa Daugaard is Co-Executive Director/Policy at Purpose Dignity Action 
 (PDA)\, formerly the Public Defender Association\, based in Seattle. She j
 oined the Defender Association in 1996 as a public defense staff attorney\
 , later served in multiple management positions. She led TDA’s Racial Di
 sparity Project\, combatting racial discrimination in\, and generated by\,
  the criminal legal system at the height of mass incarceration\, from 2000
 -2013. As part of the RDP work\, from 2001-2008\, Lisa led a successful se
 lective enforcement litigation challenge to drug arrests of Black people i
 n Seattle. The settlement of that litigation effort resulted in an agreeme
 nt by SPD and the King County Prosecutor’s Office to launch a pilot pre-
 booking diversion framework for drug offenses\, which came into being in 2
 011 as the Law Enforcement Assisted Diversion (LEAD) model.\n\nLisa was fo
 unding Co-Chair of the Seattle Community Police Commission\, serving on th
 e CPC until 2019. In 2019\, she was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship for wor
 k building consensus around community-based responses to illegal behavior 
 related to unmet behavioral health needs and extreme poverty. Lisa grew up
  in the Seattle area\, attended the University of Washington\, was an anti
 -apartheid activist at Cornell University in the mid-1980s while occasiona
 lly attending class and earning an MA\, and obtained her JD from Yale Law 
 School (class of 1992). After law school\, she worked in New York City as 
 a fellow at the ACLU National Legal Department\, leading a successful chal
 lenge to the first US detention camp at Guantanamo (for HIV-positive Haiti
 an asylum seekers)\; as Legal Director of the Coalition for the Homeless\;
  and as Organizing Project Director at the Urban Justice Center.\n\n \n\nA
 dán Espino Jr. | Contract Lobbyist & Principal\, The Cascadia Group Adán
  is a contract lobbyist and government affairs consultant based in Olympia
 \, WA. He has a strong background in human services\, housing\, education\
 , and business sector issues. He began his career at UW Tacoma and is the 
 Principal of his firm The Cascadia Group\, which also subcontracts with Se
 rmonti Public Affairs and Water Street Public Affairs. Additionally\, he h
 as managed several state and local campaigns. He has a deep understanding 
 and instinct for translating policy ideas into legislative action. Adán h
 as consulted clients at the state legislative and local government levels 
 in the development of affordable homeownership and public utility projects
 \, human service contracting\, developments in state law for residential p
 roperty appraisers\, recycling issues for brewing companies\, and consumer
  protection issues for independent auto dealers.\n\n \n\nGeoff Hulsey | Ma
 naging Attorney\, Washington State Office of Public Defense Geoffrey Hulse
 y serves as the Managing Attorney for the Washington State Office of Publi
 c Defense's (OPD's) Public Defense Improvement Program\, managing grants t
 o local governments through Chapter 10.101 RCW. Previously\, Geoff served 
 as a staff attorney in OPD's Disproportionality Training Unit. Prior to jo
 ining OPD\, Geoff practiced civil\, criminal\, and family law while in pri
 vate practice. From 2016 to 2019\, Geoff worked as a Defense Attorney at T
 hurston County Public Defense.\n\n \n\nPaul Lawrence | Senior Litigation P
 artner\, Pacifica Law Group Paul Lawrence is the senior litigation partner
  at Pacifica Law Group. He concentrates his practice on complex appellate 
 and civil litigation\, including commercial\, municipal\, constitutional\,
  environmental\, and insurance coverage cases in federal and state courts.
 \n\nPaul’s appellate experience includes over 125 appeals\, principally 
 in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals\, the Supreme Courts of Washington a
 nd Montana\, and the various Courts of Appeal in Washington. He has also p
 racticed in the United States Supreme Court\, the Second\, Third\, Seventh
 \, Eleventh\, D.C.\, and Federal Circuit Courts of Appeal\, and the Califo
 rnia and New York appellate courts. His appellate clients include a variet
 y of public and private entities\, whom he has represented in a broad rang
 e of cases\, including many of first impression.\n\nPaul has been included
  in The Best Lawyers in America® in the field of Appellate Practice since
  the inception of that category. In 2021\, he was selected as “Lawyer of
  the Year” in Appellate Practice in Seattle. His clients include a broad
  range of public entities and private clients\, including Fortune 500 Comp
 anies\, significant local businesses\, a foreign nation\, and Washington c
 ounties\, cities\, special purpose districts\, and port districts. He prev
 iously chaired the Litigation Department at Preston Gates Ellis (now K&L G
 ates) and the Appellate Practice Group at K&L Gates.\n\n \n\nToby Marshall
  | Founding Member\, Terrell Marshall Law Group PLLC Toby Marshall is a fo
 unding member of Terrell Marshall Law Group PLLC\, where he represents pla
 intiffs in class actions\, collective actions\, and other complex litigati
 on. Toby has dedicated his career to fighting for people who cannot afford
  access to justice. Through his advocacy\, Toby has recovered tens of mill
 ions of dollars for workers subjected to wage theft\, consumers treated un
 fairly by businesses\, and employees who faced discrimination or retaliati
 on. He has also obtained substantial injunctive relief for individuals who
 se civil rights were violated by governmental entities.\n\nToby has succes
 sfully litigated and tried cases in state and federal courts. He has also 
 secured numerous appellate victories before the Washington Supreme Court\,
  the Washington Court of Appeals\, and the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.
  Toby has practiced in courts around the country\, and he co-counsels with
  many firms and nonprofit organizations. He was co-counsel in Wilbur v. Mt
 . Vernon and represented King County Department of Public Defense in In th
 e Matter of the Detention of M.E.\n\n \n\nVanessa Martin | LEAD Management
  Team\, Whatcom County Vanessa Martin serves on the LEAD Management Team i
 n Whatcom County\, where she helped guide the initiative from its launch i
 nto long-term implementation. She works at the intersection of behavioral 
 health\, public safety\, and systems change\, with a focus on collaborativ
 e community response models. She is a site advisor with Purpose Dignity Ac
 tion\, supporting LEAD\, Recovery Navigator Program\, and Arrest and Jail 
 Alternatives sites nationwide\, and is the Managing Director of the Co-Res
 ponder Outreach Alliance of Washington\, where she works to strengthen co-
 responder systems through statewide collaboration and policy development.\
 n\n \n\nDavid Montes | Staff Attorney\, ACLU of Washington David Montes is
  a Staff Attorney at the ACLU of Washington. His work focuses on immigrati
 on and the criminal legal system\, including bringing a case challenging Y
 akima County's failure to provide attorneys to indigent defendants in thei
 r Court. Before his time at the ACLU of Washington\, he was a public defen
 der in King County for 11 years.\n\n \n\nLiz Mustin | Supervising Attorney
 \, Washington State Office of Public Defense Liz Mustin is the Supervising
  Attorney for the Adult and Youth Criminal Defense Programs at the Washing
 ton State Office of Public Defense. In this role\, she supervises the Yout
 h Access to Counsel (YAC)\, Public Defense Improvement and Recruitment and
  Retention Teams. She came to OPD to help launch the YAC program and led t
 he creation of a statewide program to provide attorney consultations to yo
 uth who are contacted by law enforcement and asked to waive their constitu
 tional rights. Through YAC\, she collaborates with youth defenders nationw
 ide to provide advice on similar initiatives and works to support youth de
 fense work in Washington state.\n\nAlongside YAC\, she worked with her tea
 m to create the statewide Recruitment and Retention Program at OPD\, which
  houses the Rural Public Defense Fellowship. The fellowship places rising 
 third year law students in rural and underserved public defense offices st
 atewide and provides training and mentorship\, along with other recruitmen
 t and retention initiatives. Finally\, she oversees the RCW 10.101 grant p
 rogram that provides grants and technical assistance to local jurisdiction
 s to support improvements in public defense. Prior to joining OPD\, Liz wo
 rked as a public defender in King and Snohomish Counties for almost ten ye
 ars. She handled serious adult felony cases and served as the Lead Juvenil
 e Attorney for the Snohomish County Public Defender. She has represented y
 outh in both juvenile and adult court.\n\n \n\nSenator Jamie Pedersen | Wa
 shington State Senator\, 43rd District Jamie Pedersen grew up in Puyallup\
 , graduated from Puyallup High School and worked at McDonald’s to help p
 ut himself through Yale\, where he studied Russian and history\, and gradu
 ated summa cum laude. After spending a year living in Russia and collectin
 g oral histories of Soviet Afghan war veterans\, Jamie attended Yale Law S
 chool. He clerked on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit and th
 en returned to Seattle – and Capitol Hill – in 1995. He practiced law 
 at Preston Gates & Ellis (now K&L Gates) for 17 years. In May 2012\, he we
 nt to work at McKinstry\, a Seattle-based construction and engineering fir
 m with substantial expertise in green building\, where he is Executive Vic
 e President and General Counsel.\n\nJamie was elected to the House of Repr
 esentatives in 2006 and was appointed to the Senate in December 2013 and e
 lected in 2014\, 2018\, and 2022. He served four years as chair of the Sen
 ate Law & Justice Committee. In November 2024\, he was elected Senate Majo
 rity Leader after serving three years as Majority Floor Leader. He continu
 es to serve on the Ways & Means Committee and the Rules Committee. Jamie h
 as also been a commissioner on the national Uniform Law Commission since 2
 010.\n\nJamie helped to organize and was a plaintiff in League of Educatio
 n Voters v. State of Washington\, the case that overturned several Tim Eym
 an initiatives that purported to require 2/3 majorities to pass tax increa
 ses in the legislature. In 2012\, Jamie led efforts to pass historic marri
 age equality legislation as prime sponsor of the House version of the bill
 . Voters approved the law that fall\, making Washington the seventh state 
 in the nation to allow same-sex couples to marry. In 2021\, in the wake of
  the murder of George Floyd\, Jamie passed legislation to provide timely a
 nd effective enforcement of state standards for law enforcement officers\,
  allowing the Criminal Justice Training Commission to discipline officers 
 unfit to carry a badge and gun.\n\nIn 2023\, he helped to end a decades-lo
 ng legacy of injustice by passing legislation to abolish the death penalty
  in Washington law. Due to the racially biased application of the death pe
 nalty\, it had been deemed unconstitutional by the State Supreme Court in 
 2018. In 2026\, he sponsored and passed the Millionaires Tax – the most 
 substantial progressive tax reform in state history. The 9.9% tax on incom
 e above $1 million represents historic progress to reduce taxes for workin
 g families and make one of the most regressive tax codes in the nation mor
 e fair. Jamie has helped lead efforts on several measures to reduce gun vi
 olence.\n\nJamie is actively involved in many community and nonprofit orga
 nizations. He is the past President and current Treasurer and council memb
 er of Central Lutheran Church on Capitol Hill\, where he helped establish 
 a nonprofit to run a community lunch program that feeds hundreds of people
  each week. Jamie chaired the board of the national civil rights organizat
 ion Lambda Legal\, continues to serve on its National Leadership Council\,
  and was Lambda’s lead volunteer lawyer on the state’s marriage equali
 ty case. Jamie lives on Capitol Hill with his husband\, Eric Pedersen\, an
 d their sons Trygve\, Leif\, Erik and Anders\, all of whom attend Seattle 
 Public Schools.\n\n \n\nRepresentative Strom Peterson | Washington State R
 epresentative\, 21st District State Representative Strom Peterson has been
  a champion for the people and quality life of the 21st District. Dedicate
 d to serving with integrity and leading through collaboration\, Strom has 
 brought Legislators together on issues of safety\, environmental protectio
 n\, housing and health to get things done for us.\n\nPrior to his election
  to the State House of Representatives\, Strom served as an Edmonds City C
 ouncilmember where he focused on public safety\, environmental sustainabil
 ity\, and a thriving local economy. Strom also serves on the Snohomish Cou
 nty Council giving him a clear vision of what’s needed at the local leve
 l to help his constituents. Active in the community\, Strom also serves on
  the board of the Progressive Animal Welfare Society (PAWS) and has been p
 roud to work with diverse organizations in the community including the Edm
 onds Center for the Arts\, Edmonds Community College\, and the Veterans Pl
 aza Committee.\n\nStrom grew up in Santa Fe\, New Mexico\, and received hi
 s B.A. in English from the University of New Mexico. He and his wife\, Mar
 ia Montalvo\, settled in Edmonds in 2001\, and founded three successful sm
 all businesses in Edmonds. Strom’s grandfather served more than ten year
 s as a County Council member in Colorado\, and his parents served on numer
 ous political groups and committees in New Mexico. Strom and Maria are act
 ive members of the Edmonds community and live in the Seaview neighborhood 
 of Edmonds with their beloved Bitzer\, Lulu.\n\n \n\nJason Schwarz | Direc
 tor\, Snohomish County Office of Public Defense Jason Schwarz is Director 
 of the Snohomish County Office of Public Defense. Before that he was a sta
 ff attorney and supervisor for the Snohomish County Public Defender Associ
 ation for 12 years. He is a graduate of Seattle University School of Law a
 nd Evergreen State College and has an M.A. in history from the University 
 of Chicago. He was an extern for Washington Supreme Court Justice Tom Cham
 bers. After graduation he taught at Evergreen an upper-level Shakespeare c
 ourse for undergraduates. As chair of the Council on Public Defense\, he w
 as key in advocating for the Board of Governors approval of the new standa
 rds. He has advocated in Olympia and nationally for defender standards.\n\
 n \n\nMaia Vanyo | Chief Deputy\, Whatcom County Public Defender’s Offic
 e Maia Vanyo is the Chief Deputy of the Whatcom County Public Defender’s
  Office and Outgoing Chair of the WSBA Council on Public Defense. Maia has
  been a public defender since she graduated with honors from the Universit
 y of Washington School of Law in 1999. She has extensive experience repres
 enting juveniles and adults charged with misdemeanors and felonies\, inclu
 ding sex offenses and homicides.\n\n \n\nChad Winfrey | Specialist\, State
  of Washington\n\nChad was born and raised on a dairy farm near Tillamook\
 , Oregon. He grew up playing basketball and football and being outdoors as
  much as possible. Chad moved to Seattle in 2002\, where he eventually enr
 olled into Seattle University. Chad graduated with honors in 2007 with a B
 .A. in Criminal Justice and a minor in Philosophy.  His professional caree
 r in law enforcement started shortly after with the Washington State Depar
 tment of Corrections\, where he accepted a position as a Community Correct
 ions Officer (Parole Officer). In 2013\, Chad was promoted to Specialist (
 Detective) and worked on the specialty team\, the Community Response Unit 
 (CRU). CRU’s primary function is fugitive apprehension. While working wi
 th CRU\, he also served as an instructor for arrest planning\, entry tacti
 cs\, and firearms. It was during his first assignment with CRU at the Seat
 tle Police Department that he was introduced to the LEAD program. Chad was
  immediately drawn to the collaborative nature of the program. He saw stak
 eholders that would otherwise be very siloed sitting at the table together
  at Operational Work Groups problem solving and working together for a gre
 ater good in terms of both public safety and individual success. Chad is v
 ery happy to bring his 17 years of law enforcement experience and experien
 ce with the LEAD program to PDA and to the Lead Support Bureau\, where he 
 hopes he can help support further collaboration on a national scale.
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