Organizations Filed Purposes:
Northwest Defenders Association is committed to equal justice and the defense of individual liberty. Attorneys and staff work to provide vigorous and effective representation; to protect clients constitutional rights and to improve the justice system. Northwest Defenders Association employees share a commitment to social justice, team work and active engagement with the community.
To provide legal representation for indigent clients.
Northwest Defenders Association, now named Northwest Advocates for Justice, is a Washington not-for-profit corporation managed by an Executive Director under the direction of an eight member volunteer Board of Directors who meet monthly. The agency's clients are restricted to indigent persons eligible for appointed counsel and those whom the agency is appointed by a court to represent. The agency represented clients during the first six months of 2013. Beginning July 1, 2013 King County assumed direct responsibility for providing public defense representation and assumed the responsibility for the agency's current clients. During the first six months of 2013 the agency employed approximately 32 attorneys who provided representation to approximately 2,000 clients. Attorneys in the Felony Unit provided representation to approximately 600 clients charged with a felony or appearing in a review of sentencing conditions.
Attorneys in the District Court Unit represented approximately 620 clients charged with a misdemeanor or gross misdemeanor or appearing on a review of sentence conditions.
Executives Listed on Filing
Total Salary includes financial earnings, benefits, and all related organization earnings listed on tax filing
| Name | Title | Hours Per Week | Total Salary |
|---|
| Eileen Farley | Executive Director | 40 | $66,258 |
| Jeanette Brinster | Deputy Director | 40 | $56,576 |
| Nicole Macinnes | Board Director | 1 | $0 |
| Alice Paine | Board Director | 1 | $0 |
| Christopher Swaby | Board Director | 1 | $0 |
| Elisabeth Yandell-Mcneil | Board Secretary | 1 | $0 |
| Steve Severin | Board Treasurer | 1 | $0 |
| Wendy Krakauer | Board Vice President | 1 | $0 |
| Colleen Kinerk | Board President | 1 | $0 |
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