FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

June 13, 2008

Contact: Stephanie Perry
Communications Specialist/Website Editor
206-733-5932; stephaniep@wsba.org

WSBA Names Salvador A. Mungia 2008-2009 President-Elect

(SEATTLE) — The WSBA is pleased to announce that Tacoma attorney Salvador A. Mungia, who currently serves on the Board of Governors representing members in the Sixth Congressional District, was elected 2008-2009 president-elect at the June 6, 2008, meeting of the Board of Governors. He will assume the office of president-elect beginning at the close of the WSBA Annual Meeting on September 18, 2008 — when President Stanley Bastian will pass the gavel to current President-elect Mark A. Johnson — and will assume the WSBA presidency in September 2009 for a one-year term.

Mungia received his bachelor’s degree from Pacific Lutheran University and his law degree from the Georgetown University Law Center. In 1984–1985, he served as a judicial clerk to the Honorable Fred Dore, Washington State Supreme Court, and from 1985–1986, he was a judicial clerk to the Honorable Carolyn Dimmick, U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington. Since 1986, Mungia has been with the firm of Gordon, Thomas, Honeywell, Malanca, Peterson & Daheim, where he is now a partner.

Mungia's service to the bar began more than 20 years ago, when he was a trustee for the Young Lawyers Division of the Tacoma-Pierce County Bar Association. Since that time, he has served on the Board of Directors for LAW Fund (including a two-year term as president of the Board), and served as president of the Tacoma-Pierce County Bar Association. He has also served on the Board of Directors of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under the Law.

Mungia is a past chair of the WSBA Bar Leaders Conference Planning Committee and has served on numerous WSBA committees. He was a lawyer representative to the Ninth Circuit Judicial Conference from 2003 through 2005. He has spoken at many continuing legal education seminars for various organizations, including the WSBA, the Tacoma-Pierce County Bar Association, and the Washington State Trial Lawyers Association. Earlier this year, he was awarded the Bertha M. Snell Award and Outstanding Service Award, both by the Tacoma-Pierce County Bar Association. He was named in 2005, 2006, and 2008 by Washington Law and Politics magazine as a Super Lawyer.

Mungia is also involved in his local community. He is a past commissioner of the Tacoma Human Rights Commission. He has served on the Grand Cinema Board of Directors and is currently serving as a director for the Palmer Minority Scholarship Foundation. He is a past board member of the ACLU of Washington and has been a cooperating attorney with the ACLU since 1986.

“I am firmly committed to access to justice, diversity, and to civil rights for all the residents of Washington state,” Mungia wrote. “[I] hope that I can help guide the organization in fulfilling its mission of serving the public, its members, and championing justice. I hope that I can inspire our members to not only continue, but indeed expand, the good works they do for our community. I hope that I can convey to the public all that is good about our profession.”

About the Washington State Bar Association
The WSBA is part of the judicial branch, exercising a governmental function authorized by the Washington State Supreme Court to license the state’s 32,600 lawyers. The WSBA both regulates lawyers under the authority of the Court and serves its members as a professional association — all without public funding. As a regulatory agency, the WSBA administers the bar admission process, including the bar exam; provides record-keeping and licensing functions; and administers the lawyer-discipline system. As a professional association, the WSBA provides continuing legal education for attorneys, in addition to numerous other educational and member-service activities.

The governance of the WSBA is vested in its 14-person Board of Governors. There are three governors from the seventh congressional district; one from each of the other eight districts; and three at-large members, one of whom represents the Young Lawyers Division. The 2007-2008 president is Stanley A. Bastian, of Wenatchee. The 2007-2008 president-elect is Mark A. Johnson, of Seattle, the immediate past-president is Ellen Conedera Dial, of Seattle, and the 2008-09 president-elect is Salvador A. Mungia, of Tacoma. The Board meets regularly (every six weeks) at various locations around the state, and its meetings are open to the public. Much of the work of the Bar is carried out through numerous standing committees; 26 sections; and a Young Lawyers Division, with its many committees.

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