January General Meeting - WA State Attorney General Speaking
Date: January 6, 2011
Time: 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM
Event Description
Battle Ground Chamber of Commerce
January General Meeting
Rob McKenna, Washington Attorney General
"Legal Issues Affecting Washington State Businesses"
Rob McKenna is serving his second term as Washington's 17th Attorney General. As Washington’s chief legal officer, he provides legal services to the state, state agencies and elected officials. He has won all three of the cases he has argued before the U.S. Supreme Court, defending voter-adopted laws on campaign finance reform, the top-two primary election system and the state public records law.
He earned his J.D. from the University of Chicago Law School in 1988, where he was a member of the Law Review. He earned a B.A. in Economics and a B.A. in International Studies, both with honors, from the University of Washington, where he was student body president and graduated Phi Beta Kappa.
A national leader, McKenna is president-elect of the National Association of Attorneys General (NAAG) and will step up to become president in June 2011.
He, his wife Marilyn and their four children reside in Bellevue.
ARC of Clark County will be onsite to collect Gently Used Clothing.