Thomas Hutton - Contributor

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Tom Hutton is owner of a Honolulu-based consultancy, Education Adjuncts, and is an “of counsel” attorney with the Pacific Northwest law firm of Patterson Buchanan Fobes and Leitch, Inc., P.S. Both his consulting work and his legal practice focus on addressing the legal and policy needs of public sector and nonprofit clients, particularly in the area of public education. He writes, speaks, and provides informational and training materials on a variety of legal and risk management topics for a range of public and private sector entities and has been a frequent public speaker, writer, and news media source on education issues.

Tom is a former senior staff attorney for the National School Boards Association (NSBA), where he conducted amicus curiae (friend of the court) advocacy in appellate courts on public education issues nationally and provided support and resources to state school boards associations, local school districts, and the NSBA Council of School Attorneys, the professional association for attorneys who represent school districts. He served as editor of NSBA’s popular weekly school law e-newsletter, Legal Clips, and of Leadership Insider, a school law and policy newsletter for school district leaders.

Tom recently served on the board of directors of the Education Law Association and has taught education law as an adjunct professor in the Seattle Pacific University School of Education's School Principal Certification Program.