About the Hearing Examiner
Andrew Reeves is the founder of Trebucket Legal Consulting (TLC) and serves as its Managing Director. Prior to that, Mr. Reeves spent approximately eight years working as a Hearing Examiner and Chief Legal Writer, after serving as a judicial clerk at the Washington State Court of Appeals. In his years at the Court, Mr. Reeves worked on over 100 appellate decisions, including complex decisions on SEPA appeals, LID appeals, tax appeals, and Growth Management Hearings Board appeals. Prior to that, he was the Sol Resnick Water Resources Fellow at the University of Arizona, where he graduated from law school with honors. He is experienced in land use and environmental law and regularly publishes and teaches on these subjects. Mr. Reeves has held hearings and/or written decisions on over 1,500 land use, environmental, and administrative law matters. During the last five years, he has also served as the primary Hearing Examiner in over 35 jurisdictions, including Lake Stevens and…. Anacortes, Arlington, Bainbridge Island, Bremerton, Burien, Burlington, Clallam County, Coupeville, Des Moines, Hunts Point, Island County, Issaquah, Kent, Kitsap County, Lacey, Stevens, Langley, Medina, Normandy Park, Oak Harbor, Ocean Shores, Pierce County, Port Angeles, Port Orchard, Puyallup, Sedro-Woolley, Skagit County, Snohomish, Tukwila, and Tumwater. Mr. Reeves has also appeared as a Hearing Examiner or Pro-Temp Hearing Examiner in over a dozen other jurisdictions during this time, served as Sound Transit’s appointed Hearing Examiner for appeals concerning relocation assistance matters associated with development of the region’s light rail system, and provided pro bono appellate expertise on a range of other non-land use matters for various non-profit organizations in the Tacoma area (where he resides).