Introducing our new
WA State Traffic Safety Judicial Outreach Liaison (JOL):
Judge Adam Eisenberg (ret.)
Adam Eisenberg is the new Washington State Judicial Outreach Liaison (JOL). A former judge on the Seattle Municipal Court, he currently serves as a judge pro tem for the Tulalip Tribal Court and for district and municipal courts in King and Snohomish counties.
Judge Eisenberg grew up on a small cattle ranch outside Boulder, Colorado. After earning a journalism degree from the University of Colorado, he worked for seven years as an Los Angeles-based entertainment journalist for newspapers and magazines in the United States, Japan, France and England. A career change led him to law school, and he earned his Juris Doctor from University of Washington. His career includes stints as a criminal prosecutor, a civil trial attorney, a court commissioner, an elected judge, and an adjunct law professor.
While on the Seattle Municipal Court bench, Judge Eisenberg was the judicial sponsor for the Domestic Violence Intervention Project (DVIP), a collaborative, community-based program that serves as an alternative to jail by providing individualized treatment to break the cycles of abuse and trauma. He was also co-director of the Seattle Youth Traffic Court, a restorative justice court in which high school students hand down sentences for teens who have gotten tickets in Seattle.
Outside the courtroom, Judge Eisenberg teaches Museum Law and other courses at the University of Washington, practices the martial art of aikido, and is the author of the nonfiction book, A Different Shade of Blue: How Women Changed the Face of Police Work.
