Rodney L. Brown, Jr. has practiced environmental law in the Pacific Northwest for 20 years. He is a partner at Brown Reavis & Manning, an environmental law firm with offices in Seattle and Olympia. He has worked on the cleanup of most of the Superfund sites in the region, the permitting of many large industrial and municipal facilities, and the development of significant “brownfield” properties. Mr. Brown was the principal author of Washington’s Superfund law, the Model Toxics Control Act, and he has been appointed by several governors to serve on commissions dealing with environmental, land use, and transportation issues.”

John C. McCullough Jr. is a founding principal of the law firm of McCullough Hill Fikso Kretschmer Smith P.S. His practice emphasizes land use and real estate financing and development. His land use experience includes practice before state and local administrative agencies and hearing officers in areas such as Growth Management Act compliance, zoning, shoreline regulations, environmental compliance and wetland regulation.

Adrienne E. Quinn is an attorney at Buck & Gordon LLP. Ms. Quinn represents developers, citizens, and municipalities in all facets of land use and environmental permitting, administrative hearings, and litigation. Ms. Quinn is an executive committee member of the Environmental and Land Use Law Section of the Washington Bar Association and a former member of the Seattle Planning Commission. Se was recently named a “Rising Star” by Washington Law and Politics magazine.

Richard L Settle is a Professor of Law Emeritus at Seattle University School of Law where he teaches land use, environmental, administrative and property law courses on an occasional basis. He continues to actively practice land use, environmental, administrative and municipal law with Foster Pepper & Shefelman PLLC. He has written numerous articles and papers on land use and environmental law, including Washington’s Growth Management Revolution Goes to Court, The Growth Management Revolution in Washington: Past, Present, and Future, and Regulatory Taking Doctrine in Washington: Now You See It, Now You Don’t. He is the author of two treatises: Washington Land Use and Environmental Law and Practice and The Washing-ton State Environmental Policy Act, a Legal and Policy Analysis.

Patrick J. Schneider is a member of the land use practice group in the Seattle office of Stoel Rives LLP. Between 1990 and 1997 he was the Director of the Land Use Section of the Seattle City Attorney’s Office, and prior to that he was a Senior Deputy Prosecuting Attorney in the Civil Division of the King County Prosecutor’s Office. He is a former Chair of the Environmental and Land Use Section of the Bar. He is named one of Washington’s “Super Lawyers” by Washington Law & Politics (2000, 2001, 2002).

Michael Walter is a partner at Keating, Bucklin & McCormack, Inc., P.S., a Seattle law firm emphasizing defense of local and state government in a wide variety of civil lawsuits and legal claims. Mr. Walter focuses his practice on a broad range of land use, regulatory, environmental, civil rights and tort-related issues in defense of government entities. He has represented dozens of cities and other government entities in hundreds of land use, permitting, civil rights, tort and elected-official lawsuits and claims. He has over 17 years of litigation experience before quasi-judicial tribunals, state administrative agencies, state and federal trial courts and state and federal appellate courts, and has argued over 25 appeals, mostly on behalf of cities and other governmental entities. Mr. Walter has written numerous articles and is a frequent speaker at local, state and regional conferences on topics ranging from general land use law, civil rights liability, quasi-judicial decision-making, parks and recreation liability, and risk management for government and elected officials.

Richard R. Wilson is a principal attorney with Hillis Clark Martin & Peterson. He serves on the firm’s Management Committee and is past chair of its Land Use Group. In his 26-year practice with the Hillis firm, Mr. Wilson has concentrated on land use, real estate, and environmental law. He has obtained and successfully defended governmental approvals for a variety of development proposals throughout Washington, including master planned communities, residential subdivisions, and industrial and office parks. Mr. Wilson is listed in The Best Lawyers in America, 2003- 2004, and is a frequent seminar speaker on land use and growth management topics. He is a former member of the Board of Directors of the WSBA’s Environmental and Land Use Law Section and Immediate Past President of Plymouth Housing Group.

Roger D. Wynne is a Senior Assistant Seattle City Attorney where his practice focuses on land use and municipal law. He was formerly in private practice in the Seattle office of Preston Gates & Ellis LLP. His most recent publication is Washington’s Vested Rights Doctrine: How We Have Muddled a Simple Concept and How We Can Reclaim It, 24 Seattle U. L. Rev. 851-939 (2001). After graduating from Yale University in 1988, Roger earned a master’s degree in environmental policy and a law degree from the University of Michigan in 1993.