Mair, David N.

Sheryl Willert is managing director of Williams Kastner, and a member in the firm's Seattle
office. Ms. Willert represents clients in complex commercial litigation, employment law and
counseling, investigations and alternative dispute resolution. A national speaker and author on
such topics as sexual harassment, age discrimination, and race discrimination, Ms. Willert has
successfully represented individuals and corporations in such matters. Additionally, Ms. Willert
has represented clients in matters involving professional negligence, product liability, personal
injury, contracts, and civil rights.

Ms. Willert was elected as the 2011-12 USLAW NETWORK Chair. USLAW NETWORK is an
international organization of 66 independent member law firms covering 47 U.S. states, Latin
America and Canada with more than 5,000 attorneys. She is a past president of DRI-The Voice
of the Defense Bar, the nation’s largest association of civil litigation defense attorneys and was
the organization’s first female and first African-American officer.

In 2007, Ms. Willert was designated by the Puget Sound Business Journal as one of the
region’s “Women of Influence,” a recognition of women in commerce, service and philanthropy
who are “a force in the Seattle community.” In 2009, DRI-The Voice of the Defense Bar, the
nation’s largest organization of civil defense attorneys, renamed its Pioneer Diversity Award
after Sheryl J. Willert. The award, now known as the Sheryl J. Willert Pioneer Diversity Award,
recognizes an individual attorney for his or her demonstrated commitment to diversity in the
legal profession. In 2010, Ms. Willert was honored as one of the Women of Power in Law at the
Women of Color Empowered event hosted by the Northwest Asian Weekly Foundation. In 2011,
Ms. Willert received the Loren Miller Bar Association’s Pioneering Woman Award, presented to
African-American female attorneys who are trailblazers in the legal profession.

Ms. Willert received her B.A. degree with distinction from Duke University in 1975 and her J.D.
degree from Vanderbilt University in 1978.