HARRISON, BENIS & SPENCE, LLP
ATTORNEYS AT LAW
Katherine A. George
- Washington State
- United States Supreme Court
- United States District Court, Western District of Washington
- United States Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals
- Appeals
- Environment and Land Use
- Public Records/Freedom of Information Act
- Special Education
- City of Bellevue Parks and Community Services Board
- Washington Coalition for Open Government board of directors
- Puget Soundkeeper Alliance litigation committee
- Families for Effective Autism Treatment of Washington board member
- Kathy represents citizens and groups before administrative, trial and appellate courts at the local, State and Federal levels, primarily in matters concerning the right of all citizens to an open government and the right of disabled children to an appropriate special education. She also handles First Amendment issues, environmental and land use disputes, and other challenges to government actions. Kathy is dedicated to a vigorous and free press, having worked as an editor and reporter at newspapers including the Seattle Post-Intelligencer and Tacoma News Tribune, and more recently as an attorney assisting the Committee For a Two-Newspaper Town and helping newspaper associations in records cases. She once received the 1996 National Press Club’s Freedom of the Press Award (domestic) for exercising a journalist’s privilege not to testify. Kathy began her legal career in 2005 as a law clerk for then-Chief Justice Gerry Alexander of the Washington Supreme Court.