Judy’s practice focuses on nonprofit corporation law, tax-exempt organizations and public finance.  For more than 20 years, she has represented many nonprofit organizations on corporate and tax exemption issues including determination of tax-exempt status, legal obligations of directors, organizational structure and roles of board and staff, conversion, merger and affiliation issues, and federal tax-exemption issues.  In addition, she has worked as bond counsel and underwriter’s counsel on many special fund revenue bond and nonrecourse revenue bond financings.  Many of these bond issues have involved nonprofit, 501(c)(3) organizations.

In 1992, she chaired the Community Involvement Committee of the King County Bar Association Young Lawyers’ Division, where she spearheaded the writing, editing and publishing of the handbook “How to Form a Non-Profit Corporation in Washington State,” as well as the second edition of the handbook published in 2001.  She is currently on the editorial committee for the third edition to be published in 2009.  Before becoming a lawyer, Judy worked in nonprofit organizations, most recently as Executive Director of the Northwest Women’s Law Center in Seattle, Washington.