… but is there a “good” side: Evidently not.
In the past 10 years 206 attorney’s have been disbarred:
The earliest disbarment I can find is from 1964 so roughly 50 years there have been 431 total.
Please let that soak in for a minute:
From 1964 to to 2004 there were 225 lawyers disbarred. Averaging about 5.6 per year
From 2004 to 2014 there was 206 lawyers disbarred Averaging about 20.6 per year
I’ve bolded the attorneys from Spokane & Snohomish Counties as well as the cases we know to be false for a total of 47 but there may be far more, I just have to spend more time investigating each particular case.
We will examine the suspensions, reprimands & censures (other forms of punishment) later because there are far too many for one story.
Please note: I have found about 12 more that I have not added to this list because I want to do their stories
2004
9629 Curtis Alan Shelton 09/15/2004
10902 Thomas Jay Earl 05/13/2004
11884 Diane L. VanDerbeek 11/24/2004
14823 David S. Teske 09/15/2004
18316 Wm. Guillermo Romero 07/22/2004
18922 Ricardo A. Guarnero 07/08/2004
21247 S. Don Phelps 09/17/2004
23580 Michael T. Johnson-Ortiz 09/15/2004
23649 Peter A. Slowiaczek 05/11/2004
24718 Billy S. Mitchell 03/25/2004
25454 Douglas Wilson Miller 09/17/2004
26511 Paul White 11/30/2004
27006 Armando Cobos 01/12/2004
27787 Adina Ann Atwood 09/15/2004
27937 Hollis Wayne Duncan 01/23/2004
29489 Sarah Louise Hurst 12/23/2004
2005
4331 Randall L St.Mary 02/23/2005
6483 Bruce Stewart 01/27/2005
7703 Phillip E. Miller 04/08/2005
13979 Donald B Kronenberg 08/18/2005
18294 Frederick Daniel Graf 07/08/2005
20147 Dana Paul Gelman 08/17/2005
22588 Alec M Schwimmer 03/17/2005
22730 Douglas Dean Osterloh 03/23/2005
23671 Allen Christopher Jorgensen 05/17/2005
24073 Joseph P. Whitney 09/29/2005
27895 Richard A Crews 08/26/2005
29701 R Stuart Phillips 02/23/2005
2006
373 Norman Wolfe Cohen 03/29/2006
4028 F. Curtis Hilton 09/18/2006
5626 Terry Owen Forbes 03/29/2006
7565 William Dean Adams 11/02/2006
14132 James Lloyd White 02/03/2006
15290 James Edward Graham 10/05/2006
16116 Alan L. Gallagher 11/03/2006
17151 Andrew Roman Gala 04/20/2006
22465 Donna Jean Light 03/29/2006
22519 Dennis Freestone Olsen 09/19/2006
22931 John Rodney DeGeorge 01/30/2006
22977 John Merryweather Cooper 03/29/2006
23058 Robert Ernest Brandt 09/19/2006
23076 Bernie Willard Potter 11/13/2006
23541 Edward L. Tezak 07/25/2006
25414 Bruce Edward Hawkins 02/03/2006
29192 Carlos Valero 04/06/2006
29488 Roland T Hunter 07/21/2006
33377 Virginia Lauver 05/09/2006
2007
5208 John Bertram Jackson III 04/18/2007
6904 Dale Leonard Raugust 07/18/2007
9634 George Thomas Ryan 12/28/2007
9653 Thomas John Brothers 01/16/2007
12393 Mark A Panitch 02/12/2007
12827 Tracy Montgomery Shier 10/04/2007
14241 Lynn M. Abreu 11/20/2007
17269 Satwant Singh Pandher 02/06/2007
17328 Robert Martin Storwick 12/06/2007
18552 Jonny Ludington-Green 01/17/2007
21452 Michael Owen Riley 01/17/2007
22141 Roger D. Ost JR 12/07/2007
22867 Jeffrey K. Day 12/20/2007
23860 Mark Todd McCrumb 02/06/2007
24439 Thomas Juhl 09/14/2007
25664 Michael L. Doss 10/04/2007
26675 Joel Santos Manalang 08/15/2007
27574 Oleg Ordinartsev 04/18/2007
28994 Gail Schwartz 08/16/2007
30359 Darin Harold Spang 08/15/2007
30361 E Armstrong Williams 03/14/2007
30466 Shane Chang Han 08/16/2007
2008
1028 Allen Charles Hamley 07/09/2008
4161 Jack Lee Burtch 01/31/2008
8212 Gregory S Zoro 07/09/2008
10871 Robert Neil Dompier 05/15/2008
12294 Stephen Bruce Blanchard 07/23/2008
14117 Thomas P. Sughrua 02/20/2008
15618 Jeffrey Lawrence Finney 05/14/2008
16381 John Peter Mele 05/21/2008
21015 Paul Hernandez 05/21/2008
21600 Darrell W. Marshall 11/12/2008
22674 Courtenay D. Babcock 04/07/2008
25055 Tolan Shigeo Furusho 08/22/2008
26190 Tyler Moore Morris 04/08/2008
29661 Stanley Irving Lippmann 10/24/2008
32549 Theresa Michelle Sowinski 09/10/2008
2009
1470 Philip Mark King 10/30/2009
11560 Daniel A. Wright 10/06/2009
15432 Lindsay Taylor Thompson 06/12/2009
15578 Jeffrey Gene Poole 10/16/2009
15830 Bradley Rowland Marshall 10/01/2009
18616 A. Mark Vanderveen 07/16/2009
20781 Jonathan David Sweigert 03/18/2009
22586 Jeffrey J. Arntzen 08/20/2009
23462 Richard M. Chiu 08/25/2009
25131 Christopher Paul Raymond 01/15/2009
29263 Stephen Jesse Oelrich 06/24/2009
33632 Ellen J Hong 11/16/2009
33636 James K Naito 01/20/2009
2010
4565 Daniel John Shea 09/17/2010
5357 Charles L Smith 09/17/2010
6273 Antonio Salazar 05/12/2010
6534 Michael John Wynne 12/27/2010
7370 Paul H. King 06/10/2010
9085 Stephen D. Cramer 02/11/2010
14579 Ann Whitlow-Clark 07/02/2010
14686 Greg R. Tichy 01/13/2010
18311 David Robert Hellenthal 03/24/2010
18398 Mark Alan Schneider 09/17/2010
19165 Michael Andrew Hecht 05/19/2010
19555 Theodore A. Mahr 12/27/2010
20931 James J. Conlin 11/17/2010
24238 Hyon Chun Pak 07/22/2010
25096 Christina S. Denison 12/27/2010
25103 Paul Richard Lehto 03/24/2010
27121 Jodi L Frost 12/10/2010
29944 Shane O Nees 06/03/2010
29978 Noel Lerner 12/27/2010
31035 John R Scannell 09/09/2010
40210 Shange Holden Petrini 12/27/2010
2011
5385 W. Russell Van Camp 06/16/2011
6710 Robert Earl Beach III 11/02/2011
7370 Paul H. King 01/13/2011
8993 J. David Smith 01/13/2011
11970 Alan Mark Singer 06/09/2011
13129 Lori Diane Hansen 09/15/2011
13249 William O. Guffey 03/18/2011
15181 Myrna I Contreras 05/27/2011
17732 Paul D. Ryals 05/25/2011
17943 Stanley Denard Tate 03/10/2011
20395 David P. Butler 11/23/2011
20568 Michael Primont 06/02/2011
25666 Kristopher Avard Kinkade 11/02/2011
26179 Laine Hedwall 04/14/2011
27407 Nicholas R Matarangas 09/16/2011
27407 Nicholas R Matarangas 07/07/2011
28000 Charmaine Lynette Clark 04/04/2011
28936 Sandeep Baweja 10/17/2011
36837 Kristine R Villager 05/17/2011
2012
6680 Melvin H Champagne 04/06/2012
10719 Paul Eugene Simmerly 08/02/2012
16006 Rolando Martinez Adame 12/12/2012
16006 Rolando Martinez Adame 11/21/2012
16062 Albert Marvin Raines 01/12/2012
16171 Ryan Mark Edgley 06/29/2012
17398 Kate Lynn 06/19/2012
20389 Robert H. Grundstein 06/25/2012
21821 Clayton Ernest Longacre 12/27/2012
21896 William Bechold 12/12/2012
22092 Kaaren L. Barr 03/09/2012
23030 Edgar James Steele 06/29/2012
23947 Drago Campa 03/16/2012
26569 Victoria N Smith 02/14/2012
26732 Robert E Stark 01/12/2012
27789 Ruth Ann Elizabeth Westbrook 06/19/2012
28132 Michael David Coffman 06/19/2012
29567 Tucker F Blair 08/27/2012
29745 Ryan J West 08/23/2012
29771 Kimberly Lynn Grijalva 01/12/2012
30148 Dean Dinh Nguyen 11/21/2012
33299 Shannon K Connall 01/12/2012
33449 Martha D Finn 11/21/2012
36351 Noble Chikezie Njoku 03/09/2012
36432 John P Brownlee JR 11/21/2012
36605 Benjamin L. Carter 05/03/2012
2013
1313 Thomas F. McGrath JR 08/22/2013
5074 Stephen Lionel Conroy 07/30/2013
6428 Stephen Tadashi Araki 12/11/2013
7790 Mark Duncan Bantz 12/11/2013
11356 Mark Stansfield 07/30/2013
11930 Dennis Keith Pflug 10/21/2013
11930 Dennis Keith Pflug 07/30/2013
12177 James Robert Watt 10/09/2013
16944 Thomas R. Kamb 07/18/2013
18943 Bruce Michael Hull 03/20/2013
21797 Kevin Michael Healy 12/11/2013
23653 Vivian Leigh White 01/10/2013
24317 David R. Fox 03/20/2013
24894 Janyce Lynn Fink 03/20/2013
26939 Paul D Jacobson 10/09/2013
27678 Clarence C Jones 07/30/2013
28221 Douglas Allen Saar 09/10/2013
29165 Phillip Alan Zajdel 07/30/2013
29454 Jonathan Abraham Elgart 08/02/2013
29866 John Christian Siegel 05/10/2013
30727 David Robert Kennedy 06/05/2013
32347 Fredric Sanai 06/06/2013
32362 Belinda Armijo 09/10/2013
32385 Fiona Allison Crinks Kennedy 01/10/2013
34334 Rosaura Del Carmen Rodriguez 07/18/2013
36189 Sarah A Campbell 07/30/2013
37505 Magor Julian Denes 12/11/2013
41966 Edward J Callow 12/02/2013
2014
9142 Peter Dirk Nansen 06/12/2014
10887 Russell Kenneth Jones 12/11/2014
17824 George J. Atwater III 02/12/2014
18945 Robert Brian Jackson 04/24/2014
20364 Eric Rene’ Vargas 09/02/2014
21935 David Scott Engle 03/19/2014
22951 John Joseph Baker 03/19/2014
29683 Kirk T ‘Chip’ Mosley 05/08/2014
29915 Jae H So 03/31/2014
31048 Eric A Jones 07/14/2014
31074 Ronald Anthony Gomes 05/22/2014
33499 Heidi L Hunt 06/12/2014
34086 Laurie L. Magan 09/02/2014
35362 Meyrick-Aylmer Cortes 11/21/2014
40928 Adam Corey Guenther 10/22/2014
As I was saying more then a quarter of these attorneys crossed paths with a specific group of members of the bar, in certain areas, & in some cases we know for a fact that these cases are false, but just think: 47 connected cases out of 206, possibly more. I might also point out more than 30 of these attorneys are from out of state & were just arbitrarily disbarred by default but I did not bold them.
For just a small perspective just look at what they did to
Doug Shafer
&
Robert Grundstein
So what changed? I think it’s safe to say that the WSBA did not suddenly grow morals or ethics. So what caused this massive surge in disbarments? Who changed in leadership?
We am still investigating & contacting people & will continue this report as soon as we have more info. If you have time read some of these cases.
