Tag: jenny durkan

Jenny Durkan Mayor of Seattle The question is more like: How hasn’t she contributed? Durkan grew up outside of Seattle, the daughter of a Washington state senator and a newspaper editor. She spent her early career teaching English and coaching girls basketball in a Yukon fishing village in rural Alaska before getting her law degree. Her legal career has been defined by her progressive values: fighting for victim plaintiffs, defending journalists called into court by the government, focusing on police reform and...