Introducing Harry Boesche, MRSC Legal Consultant

Greetings! I’m very pleased to join MRSC as its newest legal consultant. As a municipal attorney with nearly 25 years of experience, I have consulted MRSC for assistance with challenging legal questions throughout my career. I look forward to furthering MRSC’s valuable work and mission by assisting municipalities facing legal challenges.

I am a Washington native. Aside from a four- year stint in Pullman (yes, I actually graduated from Washington State University, or WSU, in 4 years!), I have lived in the south Puget Sound region my entire life.

I graduated from WSU with a criminal justice degree in 1995 and from Seattle University School of Law in 1999. After practicing for a few years at a private law firm with a municipal law focus, I returned to school at the University of Washington for a Master of Law (LL.M.) in taxation and  graduated in 2003.

I joined the City of Auburn in 2007 and spent the next 17 years of my career there as the city’s chief prosecutor and deputy/acting city attorney. Although I encountered a wide range of legal issues in my time with Auburn, I consider public records, franchising, and the Open Public Meetings Act to be among my “specialties.”

In addition to practicing municipal law, I have been a paralegal instructor at Tacoma Community College for over 20 years, teaching such courses as labor and employment law, legal writing, and civil procedures.

I look forward to the new challenges and learning that MRSC will bring to my career and to working with all of you.