Sal Mungia
  Gordon, Thomas, Honeywell, Malanca, Peterson & Daheim, Tacoma, WA

Salvador A. Mungia, is a partner in the Tacoma office of Gordon, Thomas, Honeywell, Malanca, Peterson & Daheim. He received his undergraduate degree from Pacific Lutheran University in 1981 with high honors. He graduated from the Georgetown University Law Center in 1984 with honors.

Sal has been elected to various bar association positions. He is currently the president-elect of the Washington State Bar Association and will be WSBA president in September of 2009. He served as the governor for the Sixth Congressional District for the Washington State Bar Association from 2005 through 2008. Sal served as president of Legal Aid for Washington from 2002 through 2003. He was the president of the Tacoma-Pierce County Bar Association in 1999.

Sal is committed to civil rights, promoting the rule of law, and advancing diversity. He is a former board member of The Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under the Law, a national organization safeguarding civil rights especially for those who have historically suffered discrimination. He is a former board member of the ACLU of Washington and has been an ACLU cooperating attorney since 1986. In that capacity he has litigated first amendment and prisoner rights cases. Sal also served as a commissioner on the Tacoma Human Rights Commission. Sal recently finished serving five years on the Palmer Scholarship Foundation, an organization providing funding and mentoring to students of color who seek to obtain a college education.

Sal has been in private practice since 1986 with the Gordon, Thomas law firm. He has been recognized by his peers in a variety of settings. He is AV rated by Martindale Hubbell - its highest rating based upon a peer-rating process. He has been named by Washington Law and Politics, a "Super Lawyer" in multiple years. He is a member of the American Board of Trial Advocates and also Litigation Counsel of America both of which are by invitation only. In 2003 he was selected for a three-year term by the judges of the federal courts in the Western District of Washington to be one of three lawyer representatives to the Ninth Circuit Judicial Conference. Sal has presented at numerous continuing legal education seminars for a variety of organizations.