Currently representing Skagit County in the SSB 5248 Ruckelshaus Center process, Ryan Walters has focused his practice on the fields of environmental and land use law.

Education

University of California, Davis, School of Law

• Juris Doctor2005
• American Constitution Society student chapter, President and Founder 2004-2005
• Business Law Journal, Senior Technology Editor 2004-2005
• Office of U.S. Senator Maria Cantwell, Intern 2003
• Martin Luther King, Jr., Service Award Honoree

London School of Economics

• Development in the International Political Economy summer programme 2003

University of Rochester, New York

• B.A. cum laude in Political Science and French2002
• Certificate in International Relations
• Neil C. Arvin Prize for excellence in French
• John H. Berman Award for pre-law undergraduate performance
• All-Campus Judicial Council
  Chief Justice2001-2002
  Associate Justice1999-2001
• Modern Languages and Cultures Undergraduate Council, Chair 1999-2000
• Foreign Language Floor, French Chair 1999-2000
• Office of Congressman Jim McDermott, Intern 2001

Professional

Associations

• Washington State Bar Association
  Environmental and Land Use Law Section
• King County Bar Association
  Young Lawyers Division Publications Committee
  Environmental Law Section
  Government Lawyers Section
• Skagit County Bar Association
• American Constitution Society
• American Civil Liberties Union

Publications

• Managing Global Mobility: Free Trade in Services in the Age of Terror
  6 U.C. Davis Business Law Journal 15, 2006

Community

Board Memberships

• Anacortes Schools Foundation, Member 2007-present
• Save South Fidalgo, Board of Directors, Secretary 2006-present
• Anacortes Conservation Voters, Board of Directors 2003-present
• Evergreen Islands, Board of Directors 1998-present

Other Service & Projects

• Anacortes School Bond Committee 2007-2008
• Committee to Elect Dan Pike Mayor of Bellingham 2007
• Campaign to Elect Mary Kay Becker to the Washington State Supreme Court 2004
• Committee for Skagit County Charter 2003
• Committee to Re-Elect Skye Richendrfer Mayor of Mount Vernon 2003