Adam Cornell Adam’s passion for justice, public service, volunteerism and advocacy stems in large measure from his own experience as a former foster child. As a Deputy Prosecuting Attorney for Snohomish County for the past 12 years, he has prosecuted homicides, domestic and sexual assaults, and physical abuse crimes. From 2005 to 2010, he also served as the county’s first full-time Special Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Washington, prosecuting federal narcotics and firearms crimes. Adam is a past board member of the Child Welfare League of America and Public Interest Works. He currently serves on the Board of Trustees of Seattle Repertory Theatre and the Advisory Board of the Center for Children & Youth Justice. Appointed by two governors to the Washington Commission for National and Community Service (now called Serve Washington), Adam helped to guide AmeriCorps and other local and national service programs in our state from 2004 through 2009. He knows about community service first hand: The former Peace Corps volunteer taught anger management and life skills to incarcerated juveniles in Guyana, South America. While working as a law clerk at the Juvenile Rights Project in Portland, Adam authored the Foster Child Scholarship Bill, which became law in Oregon in 2001 and provides a funding mechanism for college tuition scholarships to former foster children. In 1990, Adam was named the Boys & Girls Clubs of America’s National Youth of the Year, representing the then 1.5 million Club members as a national spokesperson. He recently earned the Children’s Champion Award from the Kirkland Boys & Girls Clubs. A 1991 graduate of Woodinville High School, Adam holds a law degree from Lewis & Clark College and a Bachelor of Arts, magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa, from Georgetown University. Adam and his wife, Whitney, live in Edmonds.