Barbara Schuknecht

Barbara Schuknecht, Of Counsel to McNaul Ebel, is an integral member of the firm's litigation team. Her law practice emphasizes commercial litigation at both the state and appellate court levels.

Ms. Schuknecht received her undergraduate degree from Arizona State University in 1979, with a B.S. in History. She then received her law degree from the University of Washington School of Law in 1983, where she was a member of Washington Law Review from 1981 to 1983.

After graduating from law school, she worked for Battelle Seattle Human Affairs Research Center, and thereafter assisted several litigation attorneys as an independent contractor. From 1987 to 1991, Ms. Schuknecht clerked for Judges Robert W. Winsor and Susan R. Agid of the Washington State Court of Appeals, Division I. In mid-1991 she entered private practice with Culp Guterson & Grader and remained there until the firm's dissolution in 1995. She joined McNaul Ebel Nawrot & Helgren in mid-1995 and became Of Counsel to the firm in 1999.