Staff

Todd Carlisle
Director of Long-Term Care Resident Rights Program

Todd is the Director of Disability Rights Washington’s Long Term Care Resident Rights Program. He has been an attorney with Disability Rights Washington since January 2018. He has worked in Washington’s civil justice system protecting the rights of clients with long-term cognitive, psychiatric, and physical disabilities since 1996. He has worked as a staff attorney with Columbia Legal Services, and the Northwest Justice Project, and has taught Poverty Law as an adjunct professor at the Seattle University School of Law. He is a member of the Washington State Bar Association, and has served on the Seattle University Law Alumni Board and as president of Pierce County Chapter of Lawyers Helping Hungry Children, and the L’Arche Tahoma Hope Community Board of Directors. He regularly provides training and education to clients, service providers, and other attorneys on public benefits, disability rights, and housing issues. Todd is an avid skier, cyclist, and dog walker.