Carrie Blackwood
Focusing on labor and employment law, which includes counseling, training, negotiation, best practices, discipline, civil rights compliance, workplace investigations, and conflict resolution.
Holding three decades of expertise in strategy development, institutional representation, political advocacy, labor relations, negotiation, complex multi-party dispute resolution, equity, organizational leadership, and workplace law.
Representing the government, judges, courts, first responders, doctors, academics, labor unions, non-profit organizations, businesses, and others.
Advocating before the National Labor Relations Board, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the Public Employee Relations Commission, the Washington State Human Rights Commission, the Washington State Department of Labor and Industries, the U.S. Department of Wage and Hour Division, and others.
- State of Washington, 2016
- State of Minnesota, 1998 (Inactive)
- Independent Workplace Investigations’ AWI-CHI Certificate holder, 2018-present.
- Certificate of Accomplishment Becoming a Labor Arbitrator, Federal Mediation and Conciliation Services, 2016.
- Diversity Committee 2016-2018
- Association of Workplace Investigators
- Washington State Bar Association
- Whatcom County Bar Association
- Skagit County Bar Association
- Latinx Bar Association
- Whatcom Women Lawyers
- WSBA Labor and Employment Law Section
- Lauren Miller Bar Association
- RE Sources Former Board Member
- PERC Panelist 2025
- Washington State Municipal Court Judges Panelist 2025
- Law Diversity and Justice Fairhaven College Volunteer and Mentor from 1998 to Present
- Legal Studies Senior Adjunct Professor Western Washington University, Fairhaven College 2019/2021
- Law Advocates Volunteer 2018 to Present
- Political Campaigns (Council, Initiatives, Judges, Representatives)
- Candidate for Washington State Senate 2019
- Washington State Bar Association Labor and Employment Law Conference Panelist 2019
- Bellingham City Club Panelist- Sexual Harassment and #MeToo 2018
- Washington State Bar Association- Decoding the Law: #MeToo 2018
- Committee to Elect Judge Cecily Hazelrigg Hernandez 2018
