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Debra cares passionately approximately obtaining justice for her clients. Debra has practiced exclusively in personal damage considering that being sworn in as an lawyer in November, 2002. Debra has worked, first as a paralegal, and now as an attorney, inside the personal injury discipline on account that 1994. She completed Washington State Bar Association Law Clerk Program in 2002, and passed the Washington State Bar Examination in July of that year. Debra has practiced completely in personal harm given that being sworn in as an legal professional in November, 2002. On January 1, 2006, she co-based Willis & Toews, PLLC, with Monte Willis. After witnessing the death of her excellent friend, Ann Weatherill, in a bicycle-vehicle crash on Mother’s Day, 2004, she intensified her advocacy for biking safety. She has also testified in each the Washington State House and Senate Transportation Committees on bicycle and pedestrian safety issues in 2005 and 2013. The 2005 attempt helped with the a hit enactment of the Safe Passing Law, which clarified and modified the RCWs concerning motors passing bicycles, pedestrians and equestrians. More lately, she has been lively in seeking to get a three foot minimal “safe passing” distance enacted inside the legislature. In 2005, Debra received the Bicycle Alliance of Washington’s Susie Stephens Award for Bicycle Advocacy, on behalf of her successful efforts to get the Bicycle Safe Passing Law passed in Washington State. In 2006 she won a Hometown Hero award from the Blue Mountain Chapter of the American Red Cross for her work in Public Safety. Debra is an extended-time avid bike owner, has commuted with the aid of bicycle for greater than twentyfive years, enjoys studying a huge kind of books, and has been concerned in network sports, such as the Ann Weatherill Cycling Classic, that is a fund raiser for cycling safety which has funded putting greater than 40 “Share the Road” bicycle signs and symptoms placed on county roads which are typically used by bicyclists in Walla Walla County. Debra also spok › ›
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Graduation year: 1976
