Allen D. Brecke
Bar Admission:
Washington, Oregon
Allen D. Brecke is a native of the Tri-Cities, the son of a University of Michigan Manhattan Project physicist and lab technician raised in Atlanta. Both of his parents received appreciation certificates from Secretary of War Simpson for their “effective service contributing to the end World War II” from the Hanford site. Allen graduated from Kennewick High School in 1969, president of the National Honor Society, captain of the debate team, and voted most likely to succeed. He was educated at Whitman College in Walla Walla and the University of Washington, graduating with a degree in sociology in 1974.
He went to law school at Gonzaga University in Spokane. There, he was accepted on the Gonzaga Law Review and worked his way up to Articles Editor. He also participated in the moot court competition, making it to the final round out of thirty-seven teams, out-scoring one contestant who went on to become Governor of Washington. He graduated from Gonzaga Law School in 1977 and turned down a clerkship interview with the Washington State Supreme Court to join an insurance defense firm in Pasco. His first jury trial as lead counsel was in November of 1977.