At the Peoples Party debate, each candidate explained why she could be trusted to act in the interests of disadvantaged communities. Steve Fortney, or "golfinglawyer," as he's known on Linkedin, is challenging Holmes in the race, but he hasn't filed his financial disclosures yet. [7] In December 2020, she announced that she would not seek reelection after the end of her mayoral term. Durkan left office on December 31, 2021. Claire Grant listed her net worth as $0 and reported earning between $25,000 and $99,999 as an engagement coordinator for Stronger Families, an organization that helps military and veteran families. MR. DUFFY: Thanks for. According to Wikipedia, Forbes, IMDb & Various Online resources, famous Lawyer Jenny Durkan's net worth is $1-5 Million at the age of 61 years old. 5227 55th Ave, Seattle, WA. Combined with the salary of her husband Mark Reddington, whois a partnerat LMN Architects Moon has self-financed the majority of her campaign, contributing $111,521 of the $201,422 shes raised over the course of her campaign. David Kroman is formerly a reporter at Crosscut, where he covered city politics. For one, neither Durkan nor Moon has needed to work during the campaign, which Durkan points out is in contrast to some of the challengers both candidates faced in the primary election. Will the city achieve that recovery through cash assistance for low-income residents? The forum judge at the event told her that she should have said "person of color", and she apologized as soon as she took the stage again, saying she had tripped over her words. Durkan pointed to her time as a 20-something activist screaming for LGBT rights and her advocacy as a defense attorney on alternatives to jail. Moon noted her mayoral campaign had refused to accept corporate donations and said shed prioritize voices of the most marginalized and invite members of the Peoples Party to be on her transition team. The petitioners for the recall requested that the Supreme Court reconsider two of the charges that Roberts dismissed. When Durkan filed the financial disclosure forms required of candidates for office, she listed her personal wealth as $5.75 million. She continued the work on a pro bono basis, until she moved to Washington, D.C. to practice law with the firm of Williams & Connolly. [29], In January 2017, Durkan worked with families and other attorneys at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport to obtain a federal court order, the day President Donald Trump's first travel ban executive order went into effect, blocking the deportation of people who had arrived at the airport from seven predominantly Muslim countries. She was raised in a large Irish Catholic family of eight siblings. Jerry Markon and Juliet Eilperin (September 25, 2014). She later helped create a specialized drug program in the federal courts in Western Washington. The family lived on Mercer Island in the mid-1950s and Bellevue in the early 1960s, before settling in rural Issaquah during a time "when there wasn't any development." These disclosures are intended to prevent public officials from making decisions that directly benefit their own finances. In October 2009, President Barack Obama appointed her United States Attorney for the Western District of Washington. Crosscut didn't publish the address, noting that Durkan has received death threats from her work as a US Attorney. According to financial disclosure reports submitted on April 15, some candidates may have felt the squeeze of the recession more than others. [59] Durkan's office headed the prosecution that followed the vandalization of Seattle's William Kenzo Nakamura U.S. His wife, Ann Holmes, earned the same amount in her role as the vice president of operations for VillageReach, a healthcare nonprofit. "It has been worth it to me to invest resources in the future of our city." It's been a historic election for more reasons than one. In a debate, she said she spent most of my 40s as a single mom. She also has described sleepless nights when she worried about how she would pay the bills, even though she acknowledged she could have turned to her family for help. Her husband, Matthew Lincecum, earns between $200,000 and $999,999 as the CEO of Fremont Brewing. The business benefitted in the '70s as OSHA cracked down on air-quality and asbestos concerns andin a resume posted online, her brotherMichael Moonboasted the business grew by 325 percent while under his watch. "[74][75], Durkan announced her candidacy for Seattle mayor on May 11, 2017, shortly after incumbent Mayor Ed Murray ended his reelection campaign and resigned as mayor due to allegations of repeated sexual offenses[76] that were later settled by the city. Since selling their home theyve been renting downtown, Durkan said. Durkan won in the general election on November 7, 2017. The City Council and Durkan had already halted most residential evictions. Durkan's campaign received $50,000 from the two PACs,[101] including $20,000 from Seattle luxury hotel developer Richard Hedreen. In his role as City Attorney, he earned between $100,000 and $199,999 last year. On the other end, we have four of the leading candidates still paying off their student loans. Durkan pushed "hot spot" initiatives in high-crime areas to address drug and gun sales. Durkan stated her belief that many medical marijuana users were "fakers". Dana's spouse, Jenny Anne Durkan is the mayor of Seattle in the United States, and she is a Democrat. Both employees were Asian women, a fact the second employee pointed out. While U.S. Attorney, Durkan created a Civil Rights Department in the office. Assessing Durkans full wealth is difficult because she is enrolled in a state confidentiality program available to some crime victims and law-enforcement personnel, which shields disclosure of her home address. It is not about 'Will I have enough money for some luxury or some nice item?' Get Connected Nelson counts Fremont Brewing as an asset, which itself is worth between $1 million and $4.9 million. "We would not want a mayor or a city councilmember or even a city employee taking actions that would benefit themselves.". Cases referred for felons-with-guns charges increased 45% during her tenure. Childs and Seattle Police detective Samuel DeJesus deleted over 400 messages from Childs's phone before handing the evidence over to Durkan's office, which presiding judge James Robart called "at-best sloppy". She is from the United States. During the 2012 May Day protests in Seattle, masked individuals identified as "black bloc" members vandalized a federal courthouse. degree from the University of Notre Dame in 1980. In the early 2000s,Garvey bought Whidbey Islands most expensive property for $3.4 millionand last May, the couple sold their previous home for $4.3 millionafter Garvey had already purchased the new property. The Department of Justice and Durkan's office brought the suspects before a federal grand jury, but were unable to obtain confessions from them. 63 years of age, born on May 19, 1958, Jenny was born and raised in Seattle, Washington. Jenny is an American attorney and Democratic politician currently serving as the mayor of Seattle. [92][93][94] Murray's political consultant Sandeep Kaushik joined Durkan's campaign and later became a senior adviser to her. He has no creditors. Whichever one comes out on top in Tuesdays election will become Seattles 56th mayor a job paying $194,000 this year. Durkan served on the Washington State Sentencing Guidelines Commission from 1993 to 1996. A candidate's wealth brings numerous advantages to a political race. She served as the first Citizen Observer on the Seattle Police Firearms Review Board from 1997 to 2000 and two Seattle mayors asked her to serve on Citizen Review Committees for the Seattle Police Department. Im sure they were very frustrated at the injustice of the different track I was able to take. [57], The 2012 May Day protests in Seattle included violent rioting, damage, and a proclamation of civil emergency by Mayor Mike McGinn. According to Redfin, Farrell's home is worth nearly $1.4 million. [153], On June 1, 2020, during the George Floyd protests in Seattle in the Capitol Hill neighborhood, police in full riot gear barricaded the SPD's East Precinct building from protesters,[154] using blast balls,[155] flash bang grenades, and pepper spray against the crowd "at times with little apparent provocation". Durkan claimed that she was not given the opportunity to sign the letter, but Unite Here Local 8 (the union representing hotel workers) said that Durkan chose not to sign the letter after multiple requests. Moon said she decided to enroll the children in private school only after Seattle Public Schools assigned them to a school in Wallingford. She later launched her own start-up, D. Garvey Corp, that employed more than 255 people in the "development and construction of large-sale wireless networks," according to a biography published on the website of her latest venture, IconAlytics, Ltd. Garvey started IconAlytics, a company that authenticates art, after getting her PhD in art history from the University of Washington. But those issues, Oliver maintained, were embraced by her campaign because they were personal. The King County Sheriff's Office is investigating whether former Mayor Jenny Durkan, ex-police chief Carmen Best and other city officials violated the law when thousands of text messages during the 2020 riots and the deadly Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone (CHAZ) were deleted from their city-issued phones, according to Axios.. They also own a second house on Camano Island that's worth somewhere around $200,000 and $999,999. On one end of the financial spectrum we have Bruce Harrell boasting a $15.1 million net worth and a Seward Park mansion with a three-car garage. Jenny Anne Durkan (born May 19, 1958) is an American politician currently serving as the mayor of Seattle. She then proposed the Families, Education, Preschool, and Promise levy, which would double the number of kids able to attend the Seattle Preschool Program from 1,500 to 2,700 in 2025-26, maintain and expand school-based health centers, create and maintain year-round learning programs to close the opportunity gap from K-12, and fully fund two years of free college. S eattle Mayor Jenny Durkan issued a civil emergency order offering bonuses to potential hires for the city's police department as a way to tackle staffing shortages. Jenny Durkan needs to begin unpacking her white privilege before we could consider her an accomplice. Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan takes questions from reporters following an Apple event in 2019 for the company's new building in Seattle. While in law school, Durkan participated in a pilot criminal defense clinic, working with the public defender's office to represent individuals charged in Seattle municipal court. degree in 1985. [3][4][5] She took first place in the nonpartisan August primary and defeated urban planner and political activist Cary Moon in the November general election. Seattle Mayor Jenny A. Durkan says there are a number of factors contributing the rise in violent crime, including access to guns and the desperation caused by the pandemic. One advocate questioned how millionaire politicians would approach such questions. Her financial disclosure lists income of between $200,000 and $1million for her husband, Mark Reddington, a partner in the firm LMN Architects. Sells To. Houston is also paying off student loans. Even though we are referring to Garvey as Durkan's "partner," they are not registered domestic partners and they are not married. [156][157] On June 2, Durkan spoke to a group of protesters for the first time after five days of demonstrations. [36] In February 1995, she resigned from Lowry's office and returned to Schroeter.[36]. [117][118], During Durkan's term as mayor, the Seattle Department of Transportation canceled several bicycle lanes and greenway projects that had been planned in previous years under the city's comprehensive bicycle plan and funded in the 2015 Move Seattle levy. [13] Her mother was primarily a homemaker who supported her husband's career, though she eventually became an executive editor of the Ballard News-Tribune and wrote editorials. Mayoral elections in Seattle are nonpartisan. Jenny Durkan, former U.S. attorney and the next mayor of Seattle, addresses her supporters at the Westin Seattle hotel on November 7, 2017. . She also crafted legislation to raise the pay rate for ride share workers and signed new gun restrictions into law. [125], In April 2019, it was reported that two of Durkan's staffers accused her of mistreatment, with one calling the working environment "toxic". On the mayoral front, only two candidates are millionaires. She also played an advisory role on the establishment of the King County Drug Court and the Mental Health Court. After receiving criticism from community activists and the police officers' guild for choosing out-of-state finalists, Durkan defended her decision as the recommendation of a search committee. The other recently sold her home in a tony North Seattle neighborhood for $4.3 million. Attorneys Jenny Durkan of the Western District of Washington ($5.9 million) and Paul Fishman of New Jersey ($5.1 million). Durkan was criticized for her response to the George Floyd protests in Seattle and her handling of protesters and law enforcement in the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone. Durkan, 62, a Seattle native, longtime lawyer and former U.S. attorney, is Seattle's first female mayor in 89 years. The mayor's salary is higher than 49 out of 50 state governors. Senators Murray and Cantwell of her decision. New strategies to attract businesses to the area? [147] In March 2019, she signed the Mandatory Housing Affordability bill into law, which implements affordable housing requirements and increases density in 27 Seattle neighborhoods. Pete Holmes is worth $2.2 million. Her husband, Cameron Williams, earned between $25,000 and $99,000 as a restaurant manager. [33] The investigation and related actions by FIFA's Ethics Committee led to the ousting of longtime FIFA President Sepp Blatter and his key deputy Jerome Valcke, as well as a restructuring of the FIFA Executive Committee and World Cup processes. Moon lists her assets at $4.1 million, including a condo near Pike Place Market with views of Puget Sound and the Olympic mountains. She has worked as an authenticator of 19th- and 20th-century art. Durkan announced her candidacy for Seattle mayor on May 11, 2017, shortly after incumbent Mayor Ed Murray ended his reelection campaign and resigned as mayor due to allegations of repeated sexual offence's that were later settled by the city. 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