Background
Marler, William D. was born on May 3, 1957 in Bremerton, Washington, District of Columbia, United States.
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William D. Grassie
Edit ProfileExecutive Director of Metanexus Institute
WILLIAM MARLER, American Lawyer, Partner of KELLER ROHRBACK, specializing in the field of State and American (Regional Chair, American Bar Association Committee on Complex Crimes Litigation) Bar Associations; State Bar of Wisconsin; District of Columbia Bar; Washington Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers; Ninth Circuit Historical Society; Washington Defense Trial Lawyers; National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers. Complex Civil and Criminal Trials, Antitrust and Environmental Matters.
Education
Washington State University (Bachelor of Arts, Political Science, English and Economics, cum laude, 1982). University of Puget Sound (Juris Doctor, 1987). Law Clerk, King County Superior Court, 1986-1987.
City Council Member, Pullman, Washington, 1978-1982.
Career
He is the Executive Director of Institute, an organization which worked closely with the John Templeton Foundation to promote “dialogue and interactive syntheses between religion and the sciences internationally.”
In 1980 in Philadelphia, he promoted nuclear disarmament via the Friends Peace Committee, where he helped to found the Nuclear Weapons Freeze Campaign. Grassie was arrested in several non-violent civil disobedience actions and was a symbolic war tax resister. A statement by the Friends Quaker religious organization followed:
(Grassie and Falls) are not tax evaders, but deeply religious and conscientiously motivated individuals who feel they cannot pay the military portion of their taxes without violating the central tenets of their religious faith.
In 1987 and 1988, Grassie worked as a community organizer in Southwest Germantown, Philadelphia, and organized the “Three Hundred Anniversary Celebration of the Germantown Protest Against Slavery” in commemoration of the first European protest against slavery in the New World (1688). The project was designed as a community development initiative and helped catalyze a community revitalization project now known as “Freedom Square”. Grassie earned a Ph.D. in comparative religion from Temple University in 1994, and served as an assistant professor in its Intellectual Heritage Program.
The Philadelphia Center for Religions and Science was founded in 1998, and it changed its name in 2000 to the “Institute on Religion and Science” to reflect its international reach. In 2011 the organization shortened its name to simply Institute and is now based in New York City. The organization originally promoted dialog between religion and science, but now "promotes scientifically rigorous and philosophically open-ended explorations of foundational questions" through engagement with Big History.
Membership
Seattle-King County, Washington State and American Bar Associations. Washington State Trial Lawyers Association. Association of Trial Lawyers of America.
Personal Injury and Complex Civil Litigation.
