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TCBA 2025 31st Annual Golf Tournament

Congratulations to the Golf Tournament Winners: Winning Team: Patrick O’Connor, Phil Griffith, Kevin Griffin, Bill Starnes KP #1: Lisa Wood KP#2: Patrick O’Connor Long Drive Men: Bill Starnes Long Drive Women: Amanda Bley Kuehn Thank you to everyone who participated in the TCBA 31st Annual Golf Tournament!

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2025 Law Day Speech Contest Results

The TCBA held the preliminary round of the TCBA Law Day Speech Contest for high school students on April 23, 2025, at the Thurston County Courthouse. The topic this year was “Should birthright citizenship extend to all persons born in the United States or only to those whose parents are

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2025 Daniel Bigelow Award Recipient – Mark L. Wheeler, Jr.

CONGRATULATIONS to MARK L. WHEELER, JR. for being selected as the 2025 Daniel Bigelow Award Recipient!! Mark is a partner at the law firm of Bean, Gentry, Wheeler & Peternell, PLLC. His current work focuses on transactional real estate and business matters. But in thirty-seven years of practice Mark has

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2025 Judicial Evaluation Survey Results

A total of 320 surveys were emailed out to TCBA members and a total of 52 surveys were completed, representing 16.3% percent of the TCBA membership. Responses were tabulated and an average rating for all respondents was calculated. Only ratings between 1 and 5 were included; “Don’t Know” and items

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2025 Law Day Speech Contest

BIRTHRIGHT CITIZENSHIP On January 20, 2025, President Trump issued an executive order entitled Protecting the Meaning and Value of American Citizenship. Citing to the Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution, the “shameful decision” in Dred Scott v. Sandford, 60 U.S. 393 (1857) and 8 U.S.C. 1401, this order claims that the

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