Gillian Dutton

Biography

Before joining the faculty, Gilllian Dutton was the Senior Attorney for the Northwest Justice Project Seattle office, and the Director of the Refugee & Immigrant Advocacy Project (RIAP), a University of Washington Law School Clinic based at the Northwest Justice Project. At the RIAP, she ran a clinic that provided legal assistance to immigrants and refugees seeking public benefits, assistance to victims of trafficking, and naturalization assistance for elderly and disabled immigrants.

Professor Dutton has an M.A. in Chinese history and is a 1988 graduate of Boalt Hall School of Law at the University of California at Berkeley. Before starting the RIAP in 1994, she worked for Evergreen Legal Services in Yakima, Washington where she represented limited-English speaking farm workers in housing and public entitlements cases. She has worked on issues such as prenatal care for undocumented women, immigrant access to managed care, the provision of language access to limited English speaking clients, assistance to victims of trafficking, and naturalization for persons with disabilities. She is a recipient of the 1999 Charles A. Goldmark Award for Distinguished Service and the 2005 Northwest Immigrant Rights Project Golden Door Award.