Bruce Han­ify was born and raised on the Olympic Penin­sula.  His father and grand­fa­ther both worked for the Olympic National Park from its for­ma­tive years, begin­ning in 1938.  He is a grad­u­ate of Forks High School.

After work­ing in the field of per­sonal injury, Han­ify went to work for the Yakima Pros­e­cut­ing Attorney’s Office in 1988.  In 1994 he cre­ated the felony appeals unit for that office.  He was once hailed by Divi­sion Three of the Court of Appeals for argu­ing 18 felony cases in a four-day ses­sion.  He was instru­men­tal in guid­ing sev­eral major cases through the appel­late process, and was a respected prac­ti­tioner in the area of con­sti­tu­tional legal issues.

In 2002, Han­ify went to work for the Wash­ing­ton Asso­ci­a­tion of Pros­e­cut­ing Attorney’s Asso­ci­a­tion in Olympia, WA.  He was charged with writ­ing a statewide DUI TRAINING MANUAL for deputy pros­e­cu­tors.  From 2002 through 2004 he con­ducted trial train­ing tuto­ri­als for deputy pros­e­cu­tors in Wash­ing­ton state.

Han­ify has acted as con­sul­tant for numer­ous small law firms and sole prac­ti­tion­ers on mat­ters of trial strat­egy and con­sti­tu­tional issues.  He cur­rently free­lances for a num­ber of law firms on seri­ous felonies.

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