Russ Hauge

Kitsap County Prosecuting Attorney

Russ Hauge was elected Kitsap County Prosecuting Attorney in 1994 and re-elected in 1998, 2002, and 2006.  He is a graduate of the University of Washington and the University Of Oregon School Of Law.  He began his legal career as a Kitsap County Deputy Prosecuting Attorney, and then entered private practice

with the Shiers Law Firm in Port Orchard. 

 

Mr. Hauge became a member of the Washington State Bar Association in 1983. He began work with the Kitsap County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office the summer of1982. Intern, Lane County Public Defender’s Office, Lane County, Oregon (Eugene), 1982-1983; University of Oregon, Student Conduct Code Prosecutor, 1982-83; Kitsap County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office, May, 1983 to Nov. 1984; Shiers Law Firm, Nov., 1984 through April, 1994

Commercial Law, Environmental Law, Plaintiff’s Personal Injury, Criminal Law

Kitsap County Prosecuting Attorney, Jan. 1, 1995

Community and Professional Associations and Activities

Kitsap Humane Society, Board Member 1984-1992

Kitsap County Bar Association President, 1992

Kitsap County Volunteer Attorney Services Advisory Founding Board Member

Washington State Bar Association and Kitsap County Bar Association Mentor Programs

People’s Law School Chair, 1989-1990

Chair, Kitsap County Tort Roundtable, 1989

Criminal Defense Section, Kitsap County Bar Association, 1988

Former Committee Member, Big Brothers/Big Sisters of Kitsap County

Chair, Kitsap County Law & Justice Advisory Council, 1995-2001, 2004 to date.

A local Council statutorily mandated to serve as a clearinghouse for local law and justice issues.

Washington Association of Prosecuting Attorneys, Jan. 1, 1995 to date

Chair or Co-Chair, Legislative Committee, 1997 to date.

Chair of Committee responsible for monitoring legislation concerning the criminal justice system and county legal affairs. We also develop legislation on our own and in conjunction with other interested groups.  This includes analysis, drafting, and active lobbying.

President, 2004-2005

Member, Washington Sentencing Guidelines Commission, 1996 to date

Former Board Member, Washington Coalition of Crime Victim Advocates

Former Member, Kitsap Cares Partnership

Former Member, University of Washington Board of Visitors

Former Member, United Way of Kitsap County Board of Directors

Professionalism Award, Kitsap County Bar Association, 2001

Member, Advisory Board, Peninsula Work Release

Chair, Governor’s Task Force on sex offenders and sex offenses, 2007

Founding Member and Chair of Washington State Sex Offender Policy Board, 2008-Date

Relevant Examples of Lobbying and Policy Development

Washington Juvenile Justice Reform Act of 1997

Washington Offender Accountability Act

With Professor David Boerner, Chair of the Sentencing Guidelines Commission, and Joe Lehmann, then Secretary of the Washington State Department of Corrections, conceived and developed Washington’s special Drug Sentencing Grid