Alison Holcomb, Principal Former Board Member and Vice-President West, Washington Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers Member, Short Term Options Group, and former Chair, Legal Frameworks Group, King County Bar Association Drug Policy Project Member, Seattle City Council Marijuana Policy Review Panel Member, Legal Committee, National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws Member, National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers Alison's practice emphasizes defense of the rights and property of individuals accused of drug and economic offenses. She has represented hundreds of clients charged with crimes relating to "street" and pharmaceutical drugs, as well as clients charged with money laundering, embezzlement, tax fraud, mail and wire fraud, theft, and similar property crimes. Born in Ft. Smith, Arkansas, and raised in Tulsa, Oklahoma, Alison was graduated from Stanford University with Honors in 1990. After college she relocated to Seattle to attend the University of Washington School of Law where she received an American Jurisprudence Award and clerked with the Washington State Attorney General and the criminal divisions of the King County Prosecuting Attorney and Seattle City Attorney's offices. She entered private practice in 1993. In 2003, she attended the National Criminal Defense College's Trial Practice Institute in Macon, Georgia. She is admitted to practice before all courts of the State of Washington, the United States District Courts for the Western and Eastern Districts of Washington, and the United States Court of Appeal for the Ninth Circuit.