Jan 26, 2016

Stoel Rives

Mertens

Meier

Jones

Ferguson

Stoel Rives added 14 new lawyers to the firm's partnership, five of whom are in the Seattle office: Hunter Ferguson, Litigation, Privacy Incident Response; Karin D. Jones, Appellate Law, Employment Law and Labor Relations; Stephanie J. Meier, Corporate, Food Liability Law, Intellectual Property; Alexandra L. Mertens, Corporate, Energy Services, Mergers and Acquisitions, Project Finance; and Alex Oh, Patents, Intellectual Property, Patent Litigation Services, China Services. The firm has nearly 400 attorneys in 11 offices.

Pratt Fine Arts Center

Pratt Fine Arts Center appointed Julia Harrison jewelry and metals studio manager. She has been a professional jeweler since earning an MFA from the University of Washington in 2004, and became an instructor at Pratt in 2009.

Jan 22, 2016

Frontier Communications

Damian

Frontier Communications named David Damian Figueroa AVP of community engagement for California, Oregon and Washington. He'll be based in Los Angeles. Figueroa was on Frontier's Government & External Affairs California regulatory team.

Lane Powell

Jewkes

Jenifer A. Jewkes has joined Lane Powell as an attorney in the Trusts and Estates Practice Group. Jewkes focuses her practice on estate and succession planning, as well as estate and trust administration for high net worth families and individuals. She was a tax manager with Deloitte Tax LLP.

Jan 21, 2016

Bullseye Creative

Miller

Bullseye Creative, a Seattle graphic design and advertising agency specializing in web development, brand management and marketing, hired Meredith Miller as an executive assistant.

Transportation For America

The national group Transportation For America selected Pierce County Councilmember Derek Young for the 2016 Transportation Leadership Academy, which focuses on teaching local leaders how to maximize transportation spending. Young will take part in workshops and online training.

Washington State University

The founding dean of The Edward R. Murrow College of Communication, Lawrence Pintak, will step down at the end of the semester to begin a year of research and reporting about Islam and the U.S. presidential election. Pintak, a former CBS News correspondent who holds a Ph.D. in Islamic studies, plans to write a book about Islam and the election.

Jan 20, 2016

Betts, Patterson & Mines

Hurl

Betts, Patterson & Mines elected Lori Worthington Hurl to director. She joined as a summer associate in 2007, and focuses on complex litigation and insurance defense.

Fisher & Phillips

Neale

Immigration attorney Robert Neale is now a partner in Fisher & Phillips' Seattle office. He spent eight years as in-house counsel at Microsoft on the global migration team.

Clark Nuber

Clark Nuber PS, a CPA and consulting firm in Bellevue, hired Anthony Hargreaves as IT audit principal. He was with Ernst and Young.