Kirsten Barron

Lawyer

This is the formal bio below, but the executive summary is I like challenge and learning. I find meaning through service. I have the most fun with my family. Kirsten Barron practices in the areas of business and employment law at Barron Smith Daugert PLLC, where she has worked for over twenty years. After graduating from law school in 1991, she served as a law clerk to the Honorable Judge Lawrence S. Margolis, United States Court of Federal Claims in Washington D.C., and in 1992, to the Honorable John A. Petrich, Court of Appeals, Div. II in Tacoma, Washington. Kirsten then worked as an associate with a real estate law firm in Northern Virginia for several years. With yearning to return to the Northwest, she was appointed as the Civil Deputy Prosecuting Attorney for Grays Harbor County. After several years in Grays Harbor, she came to Barron Smith Daugert formerly Brett & Daugert in Bellingham, WA. Kirsten has been a volunteer for Law Advocates, the Whatcom County Volunteer lawyer program, for almost 20 years. She has served on its Board as a voting and non-voting member for almost twenty years and its Chair for three years. She is the past Chair of the Washington State Access to Justice Board. She has served as a Board Member of WFC Rangers Soccer, Allied Arts, Pickford Film Center, Slum Doctor and Southside Soccer; and as a committee member of the Washington State Supreme Court Public Trust and Confidence Committee. She is currently a Board Member of the Whatcom YMCA; a committee member for the Campaign for Equal Justice and the Chair of the Equal Justice Coalition. Kirsten is also the co-host of the podcast, Crina and Kirsten Get to Work, about women and work. She has three almost grown children and a very understanding husband.

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