Panel Member Biographies
Veronica Alicea-Galvan
Veronica Alicea-Gavan is the Des Moines, Washington Municipal Court Judge, member of the Latina Bar Association of Washington and a judge pro-tem in the Seattle Municipal Court. Judge Alicea-Galvan has extensive experience as an Administrative Law Judge with the Office of Administrative Hearings in Seattle, Washington, where she presided over employment matters as well as issues involving child support, and other benefits. Before becoming an ALJ, Judge Alicea-Galvan worked as a prosecutor with the City of Seattle and City of Federal Way. Judge Alicea-Galvan also worked as a staff attorney for the National Labor Relations Board. Judge Alicea-Galvan is a graduate of Western Washington University where she earned a Bachelors Degree in Sociology with a Criminology concentration. Judge Alicea-Galvan is also a graduate of the University of Washington School of Law and a dedicated member of the LBAW.
Leo Hamaji
Leo Hamaji is the Felony Division Supervisor at the Defender Association, a non-profit public defender agency in King County, Washington. He has been with the Defender Association for 19 years and has represented indigent people in the Seattle Municipal Court, King County District Court, and King County Superior Court in both Seattle and the Regional Justice Center in Kent, Washington.
Prior to his current position, Mr. Hamaji was the training coordinator at the Defender and was an adjunct professor in 2000-2001 at the University of Washington School of Law where he taught the Criminal Law Clinic.
Mr. Hamaji has a long-standing interest in racial justice and police accountability issues and has been active in addressing these concerns in the Asian Community.
Steve Herbert
Steve Herbert is Associate Professor of Geography and Law, Societies, and Justice at the University of Washington. Prior to joining the UW faculty in 2000, he taught at the University of Michigan and Indiana University. His teaching and research focuses on criminal law and law enforcement, with a particular emphasis on police culture and organization. He has conducted ethnographic research in both the Los Angeles and Seattle Police Departments. This work resulted in two books: Policing Space (University of Minnesota Press, 1997), and Citizens, Cops, and Power (University of Chicago Press, 2006).
Eric Schnapper
Professor Schnapper, who joined the UW law school faculty in 1995, teaches Civil Rights, Civil Procedure and Employment Discrimination. He served for twenty-five years as an assistant counsel to the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc., specializing in appellate litigation and legislative activities.
Most recently, Professor Schnapper won three U.S. Supreme Court cases, including two high-profile employment discrimination cases, Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway v. White (June 22, 2006) and Ash v. Tyson Foods, Inc. (Feb. 21, 2006). In addition, he has handled more than seventy Supreme Court cases, including Kolstad v. ADA (1999), Bogan v. Scott-Harris (1998), Oncale v. Sundowner Offshore Oil (1998), Faragher v. Boca Raton (1998), and Burlington Industries v. Ellerth (1998).
Professor Schnapper taught at Columbia Law School from 1979-94, and at Yale Law School in 1990. His articles on constitutional law and civil rights have appeared in law reviews published by Harvard, Columbia, Virginia, Stanford and other law schools. He served in 1981-82 as administrative assistant to Representative Tom Lantos (Calif.). He was the recipient of a Marshall Scholarship for study at Oxford University in 1963-65, served as articles editor of the Yale Law Journal, and clerked for the California Supreme Court.
Kellye Testy
Kellye Testy is the Dean of Seattle University’s School of Law. She initially joined the law faculty in 1992, after serving as a law clerk to the Honorable Jesse Eschbach of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. Dean Testy earned her J.D. summa cum laude (first in class) from Indiana University School of Law (1991), where she served as the Indiana Law Journal’s editor-in-chief, was a member of Order of the Coif, a John H. Edwards Fellow, and a Chancellor's Scholar. During law school, she also completed a joint program in women’s studies. Now a frequent lecturer nationally in the areas of business and commercial law, Dean Testy is a leading scholar in the area of corporate governance reform. She has published numerous articles and book chapters on corporate governance and other business law and economic justice issues. In addition to her teaching and writing activities,
Dean Testy is also active as a consultant and expert witness on a variety of corporate and securities law matters, in both state and federal court. At Seattle University, she served as a Wismer Professor from 2001-03. In the law school, she co-founded the law school’s Access to Justice Institute, and founded both the Seattle Journal for Social Justice, and the Center on Corporations, Law & Society. Prior to being named Dean, she served as the Associate Dean for Academic Administration.
B.A. cum laude Indiana University 1982. J.D. summa cum laude and graduate minor in women's studies Indiana University School of Law 1991: Indiana Law Journal editor-in-chief; Order of the Coif; John H. Edwards Fellow; Chancellor's Scholar. Clerk to Judge Jesse E. Eschbach, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit.
Lynne Wilson
Lynne Wilson is a lawyer in private practice in Seattle with extensive legal and professional experience in the area of police accountability. Ms Wilson has written and presented extensively on a wide range of police accountability topics. Ms. Wilson legal experience includes a focus on complex tort, civil rights, and employment cases. Ms. Wilson earned her J.D. cum laude from Seattle University Law School (1987).
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