Janet Gemberling

Jan is a graduate of Stanford University and the Stanford Law School; she has been a member of the Washington State Bar Association since 1983. From 2005, Jan has been a principal in Gemberling & Dooris, PS, representing clients from Eastern Washington in civil and criminal matters in the Washington appellate courts. From 1999 to 2005 her practice was limited to representing indigent criminal defendants under contract with the Washington State Office of the Public Defender. Jan served as a Spokane County Deputy Prosecutor in 1997-1999, handling criminal appeals before the Court of Appeals, Division III and Washington State Supreme Court.

As a former law clerk for Judge Ray Munson from 1989 to 1997, Judge Steven Brown, 1997, and the Court of Appeals Commissioners, 1987 - 1989, she prepared research memoranda and draft opinions on a broad array of substantive and procedural issues in criminal and civil matters. Before that, she was an associate at Edwards & Barbieri in Seattle where she represented clients in the Superior Court, Court of Appeals, and Federal District and Bankruptcy Courts. She volunteered as Pro Bono Counsel for University Legal Services, Gonzaga Law School, 1985-1987 and externed with Public Advocates, Inc., San Francisco in 1982.