Location and Hours

Community Building
35 West Main, Suite 300
Spokane, Washington 99201
(509) 835-5211

The Center for Justice is open Monday through Friday from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., except during the noon hour and on court holidays.

Staff

Bonne Beavers

Bonne came to the Center for Justice in the summer of 2001 by a circuitous route. A Texan by birth, she has lived in Colorado, New Mexico, California, Wyoming, New York, Maine, and Washington state during her adulthood. Bonne received her undergraduate degree in Russian Area Studies from Colorado College in 1974. She undertook various jobs after college, including writing for the wire service United Press International and instructing for Outward Bound. Along with her son and husband, she spent seven years sailing around the world on a small boat. Back ashore, she attended the University of Colorado’s School of Law and graduated Order of the Coif in 1999. Bonne then worked as a clerk for Judge Daniel Hale and as a public defender in Boulder, Colorado, before making her way to Spokane. She is a rabid bicyclist whose motto is: start slow and taper off.

Breean Beggs

Breean has been the Center for Justice’s chief catalyst since February 2004. His law practice emphasizes the rights of individuals against companies and government agencies discriminating against people based on race, gender, disability, sexual orientation, or their free expression of ideas. Prior to joining the Center, he practiced law for 12 years in Bellingham, Washington, with Brett & Daugert, where he focused on plaintiff’s personal injury, civil rights, and timber trespass. Breean graduated from Whitworth College in 1985 with a bachelor’s degree in international studies and then attended the University of Washington School of Law, graduating in 1991 as Order of the Coif. Breean has volunteered in his community with the Volunteer Lawyer Program, the ACLU, the Literacy Council, the Washington State Trial Lawyers, the Washington State Young Lawyers Division, his church, and youth sports programs. He and his wife, Laurie Powers, are raising three children together near Manito Park. Breean loves to run, play soccer and basketball, read science fiction, and talk politics.

Tim Connor

Tim joined the Center’s staff in February 2008 to work on communications projects and to help initiate a new CFJ project to audit compliance with state open government rules. Tim was named the Outstanding Graduate in Journalism at Washington State University in 1979 and in his career as a journalist has won several national and regional investigative reporting awards. As a Center client in 2005, Tim won a unanimous Washington Supreme Court decision in an important public records case stemming from his investigation of Spokane’s River Park Square scandal. In the 1990s, he was one of the country’s leading public interest advocates attacking government secrecy, environmental contamination, and social injustices related to American nuclear weapons production and testing activities. The son of a science teacher, he has testified before both houses of Congress and presented before the National Academies of Science and Institute of Medicine. He has served on three federal advisory committees and was one of the founders of what is now the Alliance for Nuclear Accountability. He lives in west Spokane with his wife, Connie Raybuck, and their children Audrey and Devin. Tim grew up playing football on muddy fields in Panama where he played quarterback on two championship teams. He now enjoys golf, bird-watching, biking and long swims in lakes and rivers.

Shallan Dawson

Shallan joined the Center for Justice staff in September 2006 as the river coordinator. She works with river attorneys Rick Eichstaedt and Bonne Beavers to manage the Center’s environmental protection projects. Before coming to the Center, Shallan was the watershed management coordinator at the Spokane County Conservation District, where she worked on watershed management and cleanup plans for the Little Spokane River. In the past, she also worked for the Idaho Department of Environmental Quality as the integrated watershed management coordinator implementing TMDL plans for North Idaho watersheds. Shallan has a degree in environmental science from the University of Idaho. She enjoys taking advantage of the Northwest’s year-round recreational opportunities — rock climbing, river rafting, or downhill skiing, depending on the season.

Rick Eichstaedt

Rick serves as the Center for Justice’s Spokane River attorney. He represents organizations working to protect and restore the Spokane River watershed, which includes the Spokane-Rathdrum Aquifer, Lake Coeur d’Alene, and Lake Roosevelt. Prior to joining the Center, Rick had the honor of representing the Nez Perce Tribe in Idaho for seven years on a variety of environmental, natural resource, cultural resource, and treaty-rights protection cases. Rick received a B.A. in political science and anthropology from Hamline University in St. Paul, Minnesota. And he received his J.D. and a certificate in environmental and natural resources law from the Northwestern School of Law of Lewis and Clark College in Portland, Oregon. Originally from Minnesota, Rick has always loved lakes and rivers, so it’s no surprise that he serves on the board of Idaho Rivers United, as well as the board of the Environmental and Natural Resource Section of the Idaho State Bar. Rick is an avid whitewater rafter, hiker, and backpacker — though lately, his attention has been focused on his son Noah, born in May 2004.

Rosie Ennis

Rosie became the Center for Justice’s front-desk coordinator on Valentine’s Day of 2005. Since then, she has become essential to the functioning of the office. Rosie keeps everyone organized, and knows the answer to almost any question. She interacts with clients and potential clients on a daily basis — and tries to make at least one person smile each day. Rosie helps people through the process of becoming Center for Justice clients or refers them to other organizations better able to assist them with their specific problems. In her spare time, Rosie volunteers at KYRS, Spokane’s public radio, and at Northwest Fair Housing Alliance. She has been with her husband, Joe, for 14 years and they have a son, James. Rosie likes making movies with her family and friends, taking belly dancing classes, and playing racquetball, ultimate Frisbee, and hacky sack. She says making movies are “an opportunity to make statements about society and poke fun at ourselves.”

Holly Fauerso

Holly joined the Center in August of 2007 through the AmeriCorps Vista volunteer program. As our Community Outreach Coordinator she works through the Center’s Community Advocacy program on projects that include coordinating and recruiting volunteer attorneys for Street Law, researching legal needs in Spokane, and expanding Community Advocacy’s free legal services through free legal clinics. The free legal clinics are called Justice Clinics and are oriented toward helping low-income citizens get access to legal consultations for a host of problems that include landlord-tenant issues and personal credit repair. By hosting the clinics at community centers the Center is trying to remove the transportation barriers that sometimes prevent citizens from receiving legal help at CFJ’s downtown location. The Center’s community outreach efforts are guided, in large part, by an extensive legal services needs survey Holly conducted in 2007 and 2008 and published in early 2008. Raised in Spokane, Holly received her undergraduate degree from Whitworth University with a focus in community engagement, poverty, and political studies. During her time at Whitworth she was very active in the community through volunteer service to the Women and Children’s Free Restaurant, World Relief, and an after school program tutoring low-income children. In her free time, Holly enjoys sports, running, trying new recipes, barbecuing, and traveling.

Jeffry Finer

Jeff joined the Center for Justice in November 2007 as our senior federal litigator. In his quarter century as a lawyer, Jeff has become well known for litigating high-profile civil rights cases including the nationally known Spokane Gypsy case and a Spokane clinic picketing case in which he successfully advocated for the privacy rights of women seeking abortions. His cases have taken him to every level of the American justice system, including a 1996 case argued before the U.S. Supreme Court. Among the active cases Jeff brings to the Center for Justice are those involving the deaths of Otto Zehm and Trent Yohe, both of whom died while being taken into custody by Spokane area law enforcement officers. Jeff has been named Spokane’s top civil rights lawyer for three years running by Spokane Living Magazine, sharing the most recent award with CFJ chief catalyst Breean Beggs. Before moving to Spokane in 1984, Jeff earned his undergraduate degree at Yale (Fine Arts) and his law degree from the New Mexico School of Law. For the past eight years he has taught as an adjunct professor at Gonzaga Law School, focusing on courses in trial practice and criminal law. Jeff is married to Spokane physician Stacie Bering who is well known and admired in Spokane for her work as an obstetrician and, more recently, a palliative care provider and beloved teacher. They have two children: Zack is a college student in British Columbia and Cassie manages an REI store in California. Jeff loves telemark skiing and spending time in his backyard studio where he paints in oils and beeswax. If you catch him with any free time, he’s probably playing the ancient board game, Go, on the computer.

Julie Goltz

Julie was hired as organizational framer for the Center for Justice in October 2003. Her duties include finance and business management. She has experience working for both non-profit and for-profit organizations. Julie received her B.S. in agricultural business with a minor in economics from the Montana State University, Bozeman. She has served on the board of directors for the Spokane YWCA and the Selkirk Nordic Ski Education Foundation and currently serves on the board of Selkirk Conservation Alliance. Julie is passionate about her family, which includes her husband Kent, son Wyeth, and daughter Ramsey. She loves being physically active in the great outdoors; be it Nordic skiing, running, kayaking, hiking or biking. When she slows down, Julie enjoys reading, creating mosaic tables, playing bridge, and traveling.

Mary Harvill

Mary got her start at the Center for Justice in 2006 as lead paralegal supporting civil rights and government accountability cases. Before joining the Center, Mary worked at the Davis, Wright, Tremaine law firm and held sales and marketing positions at AT&T Wireless and Sprint PCS. She also served as a contractor for the U.S. Department of Justice’s Asset Forfeiture Program. Mary earned her Juris Doctorate from California Southern University in December 2006 and has a B.A. in business administration with marketing and management emphasis from the College of Idaho. In addition to Mary’s work at the Center, she serves as a volunteer for the Spokane County Juvenile Court Diversion Program and is a Court-Appointed Special Advocate (CASA)/Guardian ad Litem (GAL). She is married with a high-school-age daughter. Her blended family includes three adult children, five grandchildren, and one great grandchild. Mary and her husband breed and raise Arabian and quarter horses.

Susan McWhirter

Sue brought her extensive knowledge and skill to the Center for Justice in November 2006. With her experience in law office management in Seattle, she spends much of her time working with the Executive Director developing policies and managing the human resources and benefits areas. Sue also assists Breean Beggs and Bonne Beavers as a paralegal. On her days off, Sue spends time volunteering at a local retirement home where her father resides. She has two children and three grandchildren. Sue enjoys reading, writing and spending time outside with friends.

Suellen Pritchard

Suellen Pritchard’s initial connection with the Center For Justice was as a client. Later she began working at the Center carrying out the driver relicensing program. Since then, Suellen’s paralegal degree from Spokane Community College — as well as her life experience — have helped her develop the Center’s Community Advocacy program. She runs the program with the help of student interns from many different colleges as well as volunteers wanting to aid our community through service work. Dedicated to fulfilling the Center’s mission, the program helps low-income individuals facing many unique, and usually overlooked, problems. Suellen, a single mother of four, loves winter and water sports.

Terri Sloyer

Terri launched her career with the Center For Justice as a legal intern. Now an attorney, she currently supervises the Prison Project, which allows volunteers and student interns to interview offenders currently in custody at Airway Heights Correction Center and Spokane County Jail who are not receiving adequate medical care. Before attending law school she graduated cum laude from Weber State University in Ogden, Utah, with an undergraduate degree in political science. In May 2003, after graduating cum laude from Gonzaga University School of Law, Terri became a staff lawyer. Since then she has focused her practice on government accountability, primarily addressing police misconduct, in-custody deaths, and prison medical reform. Terri has been married to Phil Sloyer for 25 years and they are raising their three children together. She is an avid soccer mom, loves to read legal novels, and is becoming a cinema aficionado.