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Board of Directors 


Bonnie Richardson 
President
Bonnie Richardson is the managing partner of the Richardson Wang LLP and a trial lawyer.  

Matt Maile 
President-Elect
Matt was born and raised in Hawaii and attended the University of Hawaii at Manoa and graduated with a BA in ‘Ōlelo Hawai’i (Hawaiian Language). He moved to Oregon in 2014 to attend Willamette University College of Law graduating in 2017 and is now an Assistant Attorney General with the Oregon Department of Justice.

Anne Nguyen
Secretary
Originally from Texas, Anne is currently part of the Oregon Health & Science University Clinical Trials Office.  She holds a Bachelor of Science in Neurobiology from the University of Texas at Austin, a Masters in Public Health from Emory University, and a law degree from Lewis & Clark Law School. In her spare time, she can be found in Oregon wine country, training for her next marathon, or working on her ballroom and salsa dance technique. 


Vanessa Kuchulis
Treasurer
Vanessa Kuchulis is a senior associate at Miller Nash LLP in Portland, Oregon. Her practice focuses on construction and real estate litigation as well as construction contract drafting.  Vanessa received her Bachelor’s degree from the University of California Santa Barbara and her law degree from the University of Michigan.

Hon. Valeri Love
Region 4 Representative
 
 Judge Valeri Love was appointed to the Lane County Circuit Court in 2011.  She currently serves as the Chief Juvenile Judge and presides over dependency and delinquency cases.  In addition to her role as an OAPABA board member, Judge Love serve as a member of the National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges’ Military Committee and the Department of Justice’s Trafficking Intervention Advisory Committee.  In her spare time Judge Love enjoys spending time with family and friends, cooking and staying connected to Hawaii, where she was born and raised, through hula.
Mike Shin
Region 5 Representative



Yufeng Lo
Region 6 Representative


Ed Fu
At-Large Representative
 

James Kim
At-Large Representative

 



Megan Mizuta
At-Large Representative


Megan Oshiro
At-Large Representative





Thanh Tran
At-Large Representative


Michael Wu
At-Large Representative

   
Wendy Cha
Lewis & Clark Law School Student Representative
 
   
Jennifer Melikian
Lewis & Clark Law School Student Representative

 

Nathaniel Richardson
University of Oregon School of Law Student Representative



Mai Lani Moua
University of Oregon School of Law Student Representative



Austin Willhoft
Willamette University Student Representative


Katrina Christiansen
Willamette University Student Representative