Carrie Blackwood
25+ years of experience and knowledge in workplace law, organizational leadership, political advocacy, institutional representation, complex multi-party dispute resolution, negotiation, and labor relations. Representing governmental entities, labor unions, non-profits, businesses, and employees.
Her prior experience includes acting as Senior Legal Counsel representing a professional aerospace union consisting of nearly twenty-three thousand professional aerospace workers, over a decade of Lead Labor Negotiator experience, and service as the Director of Training and Development for thousands of public sector professional and technical employees in Washington and Oregon.
Admission to Practice
- State of Washington, 2016
- State of Minnesota, 1998 (Inactive)
Certification
- Independent Workplace Investigations’ AWI-CHI Certificate holder, 2018-present.
- Certificate of Accomplishment Becoming a Labor Arbitrator, Federal Mediation and Conciliation Services, 2016.
Washington State Bar Association Board of Governor Appointments
- Diversity Committee 2016-2018
Professional Affiliations
- 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
Community Involvement
- RE Sources Current Pro-Bono Legal Counsel and Former Board Member
- Law Diversity and Justice Fairhaven College Volunteer and Mentor from 1998 to Present
- Legal Studies Senior Adjunct Professor Western Washington University, Fairhaven College, 2021
- Law Advocates Volunteer, 2018 to Present
- Countless Political Campaigns
- Washington State Bar Association Labor and Employment Law Conference Panelist, 2019
- Candidate for Washington State Senate, 2019
- Labor Studies Senior Adjunct Professor Western Washington University, Fairhaven College, 2019
- Bellingham City Club Panelist- Sexual Harassment and #MeToo- April 2018
- Washington State Bar Association- Decoding the Law: #MeToo- March 2018
- Committee to Elect Judge Cecily Hazelrigg Hernandez 2018
