Instructors for the courses may include a cross-section of the following individuals during the upcoming certificate programs. Certificate programs will be offered on a six-month rotation with a new three-course program starting every September and March from now through 2011.
Gary Beagle, NMG, CPG, OCPF
Beagle, Burke & Associates, Vancouver, WA
Gary Beagle is certified as a Master Guardian with the Center for Guardianship Certification, is a Washington State Certified Professional Guardian and an Oregon Certified Professional Fiduciary. Beagle served as president of the Center for Guardianship Certification for 2007 and currently serves on the board of the Center for Guardianship Certification.
Beagle was appointed to and serves on the Guardianship Certification Board for the state of Washington. Beagle was awarded the 2004 Master Guardian Star Achievement Award by the Center for Guardianship Certification. He is managing fiduciary with Beagle, Burke and Associates, which provides fiduciary services in Oregon and Vancouver, Washington. He was formerly a vice-president with U.S. Bank prior to becoming a professional fiduciary in 1992.
Sean Bleck
Attorney
Sean Bleck is co-owner of the Seattle law firm Isenhour Bleck, P.L.L.C. His practice focuses on estate planning issues faced by elderly and disabled persons. He is a frequent author and lecturer on Medicaid eligibility and coverage. For many years, he has been ranked as a "Top Lawyer" by Seattle Magazine and a "Super Lawyer" by Washington Law & Politics. He has an AV Peer Review Rating by Martindale-Hubbell. He received his JD from Georgetown University and an LL.M. (tax) from New York University.
Leesa Camerota, CPG
Executive Director, Capitol Guardianship Services, Olympia, WA.
Leesa Camerota has been working in the guardianship and professional fiduciary field since 1994. For the first 12 years, Camerota worked as a financial manager with Guardianship Services of Seattle. In the last eight years Camerota has worked closely with King County Bar Association and WAPG to participate, plan and, later, act as chairperson for a variety of guardianship training programs. Camerota has been acting director of Capitol Guardianship Services since 1995. In her day-to-day activities, Camerota oversees all aspects of the operation of this Thurston County guardianship agency.
Outside of the daily role of being a guardian, Camerota is currently involved in several community organizations, including the Thurston County Guardianship Roundtable, the Washington Association of Professional Guardians, and the Attorney General’s Vulnerable Adult Task Force.
Martha Duggan, Care Management Specialist
Unlimited Guardianship Services of Washington
Martha has worked as a Care Management Specialist for Unlimited Guardianship Services of Washington since 1997. She has an undergraduate degree in Social Work from Pacific Lutheran University and attended graduate school at the University of Washington specializing in Special Education with an emphasis on severe/profound disabilities. Prior to entering the guardianship field Martha was employed as a long term care social worker and as a case manager in community mental health.
Hank Hibbard
Attorney, Hibbard Law, Tacoma, WA
Hank Hibbard has operated a Tacoma-based law practice, with a focus on elder law, since May 2005. He worked for the state of Washington in a variety of capacities from 1991 to 2005. Hibbard has held numerous positions throughout the years, including being a member of the Certified Professional Guardian Board, and holding a position as a Legal Services Developer under the Older Americans Act.
Hibbard has also been involved with elder law in a number of different ways, including staffing the Washington State Senior Citizens' Lobby, making physical arrangements for the fall policy conference, writing the State Plan on Aging in 1995, 1999 and 2002. Hibbard also helped organize the Elder Law Section for the Washington State Bar Association, and developed the Guardianship Fee WAC (Chapter 388-79).
William Jaback, CPG, CPA
Partners in Care, Seattle, WA
William (Bill) Jaback is the Executive Director of Partners in Care. Jaback is a Certified Public Accountant and a Certified Professional Guardian. He has been practicing in the field of guardianship and trust services since 1997. He has administered over $50,000,000 in assets. Jaback has more than seven years of direct experience in the administration of probates that have resulted in the transfer of over $15,000,000 in assets to heirs.
Before his work in guardianship and trust administrations, Jaback worked in the health care industry first as a provider of direct support and later as an administrator of companies providing direct support. Jaback has extensive experience with the day-to-day administration of personal finances, and the management of investments and real estate.
Deborah Jameson
Guardian Investigator, Certified Professional Guardian Board
Deborah Jameson is a graduate of Edinboro University, (B.A., summa cum laude, 1979); and the University of San Diego School of Law (J.D., 1986). Deborah is currently working at the Administrative Office of the Courts as the Guardian Investigator with the Certified Professional Guardian Board. She was the King County Guardian ad Litem for Title 11 cases from 2002-2007 and was the Guardian ad Litem in more than 1000 guardianship cases. She has been a presenter at Guardian ad Litem trainings and other Continuing Legal Education programs. Deborah is a certified mediator and volunteers with the Thurston County Dispute Resolution Center. Deborah was admitted to practice in California in 1986 and in Washington in 1998.
John Jardine, CPG
Principal, Unlimited Guardianship Services, Seattle, WA
John Jardine is a principal of Unlimited Guardianship Services of Washington, a professional fiduciary agency with a focus on trusts and guardianships. He has been in practice since 1992, has served as an executive board member of the Washington Association of Professional Guardians, and is a two-term past president of the association. He has been a member of the Guardian Certification Board since its inception as well as serving on the temporary Guardian Board and the legislative study group which preceded the Guardian Certification Board.
He is a past chair of the Certification Board's Ethics sub-committee and currently serves as a member of the Certification Boards Education and Standards of Practice committees.
Lexie Lamborn, MPH, NMG, CPG
Principal, Crossroads Guardianship, Anacortes, WA
Lexie Lamborn is a nationally recognized guardian with over 25 years' experience assisting elders and their families in Hawaii, California and Washington. She received her Master of Public Health degree from the University of Hawaii, has directed a major guardianship program in Los Angeles, and is currently in private practice as a Professional Guardian and Guardian ad Litem in the Pacific Northwest.
Lamborn was on the executive board of the National Guardianship Association (NGA) from 1995 to 2003 and is currently president of the Center for Guardianship Certification (CGC). She is designated by the CGC as one of only 40 Master Guardians in the United States and was awarded their Star Achievement Award in 2003. Lamborn is a Certified Professional Guardian in the state of Washington.
Michael J. Longyear
Attorney
Michael J. Longyear represents clients in issues regarding trust and estate planning, probate and trust administration, guardianship and elder law, and related real estate and business matters. Longyear is a member of the Estate Planning Council of Seattle. He currently serves on the Washington Supreme Court Certified Professional Guardian Board. Longyear is past chair of the Elder Law Section of the Washington State Bar Association and has served on the legislative committee. He is the current treasurer.
Longyear earned a Juris Doctor from the University of Pittsburgh and has a Bachelor's from Eisenhower College. Longyear has been recognized as a Washington Super Lawyer in 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004 and 2005 by Washington Law & Politics magazine, and was named a Seattle Best Lawyer in 2001.
David Lord, JD, MSW
Director of Public Policy, Disability Rights Washington
David Lord has worked since 1994 for Disability Rights Washington (DRW). His primary responsibility is the implementation of DRW's legislative and public policy agenda. DRW provides free advocacy to persons with disabilities, and is the federally-mandated, state-designated protection and advocacy agency for Washington State. Prior to working for Disability Rights Washington, David worked as a case manager for the Division of Developmental Disabilities.
David earned his Juris Doctor at UCLA, and his Master's of Social Work at the University of Washington, and is a member of the Washington State Bar Association. He is involved in activities to increase the accessibility of courts to persons with disabilities, and is the chair of the Impediments Committee of the Access to Justice Board.
Tom O'Brien, CPG
Executive Director, Guardianship Services of Seattle
Tom O'Brien is the founder and executive director of Guardianship Services of Seattle. He has a Bachelor's in Society and Justice and an Master's in Public Administration, both from the University of Washington. O'Brien has worked on legislation reforming Washington's guardianship statute and creating state certification of professional guardians. He was a founding member and past president of Washington Association of Professional Guardians, and is a former member of the Certified Professional Guardian Board. He has been a professional guardian since 1981.
Diane Renihan
Chief Financial Officer, Ballantrae, LLC
Diane Renihan has 21 years of experience as a finance and accounting professional and has served as CFO in a number of dynamic, rapid growth environments. She currently runs her own strategic and financial consulting practice called Ballantrae, LLC. During her tenure as CFO, she restructured the balance sheet, lowered capital costs by nine percentage points, and managed a $90 million secured debt financing. Diane's strong operational management skills have resulted in the improvement of organizational structures and financial management practices for a range of private and public companies.
Diane graduated with a BBA in Accounting from The College of William and Mary in 1987 and is a Certified Public Accountant. In September 2002, she was cited as one of Puget Sound Business Journal's "40 Under 40."
Kathleen Wareham, JD
Principal, Kathleen Wareham Dispute Resolution Services
Kathleen is a full-time mediator and meeting facilitator. She mediates disputes, utilizing her 20-year legal background in negligence, personal injury, civil rights, wrongful death, and complex probate, guardianship, and trust matters.
Kathleen is a member of the Washington Arbitration and Mediation Service (WAMS) and is certified to serve as a Rule 39.1 mediator for federal cases. Wareham's law degree is from Columbia University (1986). She got her Bachelor's in philosophy, with a minor in economics, with honors, from the University of Washington (1983).
Wareham has been recognized by her peers as a Super Lawyer, by Seattle magazine as one of the best lawyers in Seattle, by her Columbia Law professors for excellence in oral advocacy (the Archie O. Dawson Award), and by Glamour magazine as a Top Ten College Woman (1981).
Larry Weiser JD
Associate Professor; Director, Clinical Law Program, Gonzaga University
Larry Weiser is a faculty member at Gonzaga University School of Law; a former staff attorney and managing attorney for the Tri-County Office of the Spokane Legal Services Center, Colville; Past chairperson of the Administrative Law Section of the Washington State Bar Association; a Board member of the Spokane Alzheimer's Association, and Washington Long-Term Care Ombudsman Advisory Council, and is Certified as an Elder Law attorney by the National Academy of Elder Law.
Instructors are subject to change.
