Julie Reed

Julie Reed is a native of Richland, Washington, next to the Hanford Nuclear Reservation. She attended the United States Military Academy at West Point, NY, and Washington State University, Tri-Cities, when it was still part of the Joint Center for Graduate Studies, in Richland. She graduated from Washington State with a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering and moved to Dallas, Texas, to work as an electrical engineer at Texas Instruments.

After a few years as a digital system design engineer working in military computer systems, Julie joined a program at Texas Instruments to work in the patent department. As part of the program, Texas Instruments sent Julie to law school at Southern Methodist University. She worked in the patent department for about two years before starting law school, becoming a patent agent registered with the United States Patent and Trademark Office in 1991. She graduated from law school in 1995. Before, during and after law school, Julie worked with the digital micromirror technology (DMD), the basis for DLP (digital light processing), eventually becoming the Intellectual Property Strategy Manager for the Digital Imaging division in 1997.

In 1998, Julie left Texas Instruments to become the first in-house patent counsel at Sharp Laboratories of America, in Camas, Washington. After establishing the patent department at Sharp Labs, Julie left Sharp Labs to join Marger, Johnson and McCollom in Portland, Oregon in 2000. In 2003, Julie became a shareholder in the firm.

Julie's husband David is a data architect at Hewlett-Packard in Vancouver, Washington. She has two daughters, Julianne, 7, and Agnes, 4. Julie teaches a Korean martial art, Tang Soo Do, through the Camas Community Education Department two evenings a week and is a 5th degree black belt.

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