Randy Gordon

Biography

Randy Gordon is a principal in the Bellevue law firm of GORDON EDMUNDS GRELISH PLLC with an active practice embracing complex commercial and tort litigation, products liability, personal injury, professional liability, mediation, arbitration, and special master services. Randy has represented clients in forums ranging from a United States Senate subcommittee to litigation and mediation in federal and state trial and appellate courts including the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, the Washington State Supreme Court, the Board of Industrial Insurance Appeals, and other judicial and administrative bodies.

Randy graduated with High Honors and High Distinction from the University of Michigan in 1975, where he earned the Branstrom Freshman Prize and the Hopwood Committee's Bain-Swiggett Poetry Prize, and where he was honored by admission to Phi Beta Kappa in his junior year, as a seven-term James B. Angell Scholar and a Delta Chi Regional Scholar. He earned his J.D. from Harvard Law School in 1978, where he founded the still-operating freshman orientation program, was elected to the Board of Student Advisors, and served on the CIVIL RIGHTS - CIVIL LIBERTIES LAW REVIEW.

Randy has been practicing law in Washington State since 1978 and served on the Board of Governors representing the Eighth Congressional District for the Washington State Bar Association. Randy served on the Rules of Professional Conduct Committee of the State Bar (1993-94), as special district counsel for disciplinary matters (1994-2000) and served as a hearing officer for disciplinary matters for the State Bar (1999-2003). He has been retained as an expert consultant on matters involving legal ethics. He has also served as a President of the East King County Bar Association and as a trustee of both the East King County and King County Bar Associations.

Randy has served as arbitrator under the King County mandatory arbitration program in dozens of cases. He has also served as Presiding Officer for the National Board of Review of the USA-National Karate-do Federation (USA-NKF), the national governing body for the sport of karate as recognized by the United States Olympic Committee. Randy has served as the USA-NKF's General Counsel since 2003. He was honored in 2008 with the USA-NKF's Person of the Year Award

Randy has served as Adjunct Professor at Seattle University School of Law since spring term 1999, teaching Products Liability and Remedies. Randy was honored to be invited to deliver the Winter Commencement Address to the graduating law students at Seattle University in 2000, 2001, and 2003, and was awarded the Outstanding Faculty Award at the December 2003 Commencement.

In 2010, Randy Gordon was unanimously appointed by the King County Council to a vacancy in the Washington State Senate for the 41st Legislative District.