Baker Sterchi welcomes Kerry Keefe as senior counsel in the firm’s Seattle office. Keefe brings more than three decades of high-stakes litigation and public-sector leadership experience to a practice focused on civil litigation, constitutional and tort matters, civil rights enforcement and complex government investigations. She has tried more than 80 criminal and civil cases to verdict.
Keefe’s public-sector leadership experience includes senior roles with the Seattle Police Department, the Office of the Mayor of Seattle, the U.S. Attorney’s Office and the King County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office. As Civil Chief of the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Washington, she led a division handling Federal Tort Claims Act matters, False Claims Act and whistleblower actions, civil rights enforcement, employment and immigration matters and litigation involving tribal treaty rights.
Keefe earned her law degree from Seattle University School of Law and her undergraduate degree from Georgetown University. She is licensed to practice in Washington.














