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Diehl R. Rettig is the senior partner of Rettig Osborne Forgette, LLP, a law firm based in Kennewick, Washington, and has been in private practice in the community since 1970. Mr. Rettig is very active in community activities. Mr. Rettig received a Bachelor of Commercial Science degree from Seattle University in 1965 with a major in accounting and a Juris Doctor degree from Gonzaga Law School in 1969 where he graduated cum laude. He was a member of the Gonzaga Law Review Editorial Board and S.B.A. President in 1969. Mr. Rettig also served as Bailiff in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Washington for the Honorable Charles L. Powell, deceased, from 1968 to 1969 and as a law clerk to Judge Powell from 1969 to 1970. Mr. Rettig was President of the Benton-Franklin Counties Bar Association in 1979 and in that year became an A.V. rated lawyer, the 1st year of his eligibility. Mr. Rettig has been a fellow in the American College of Trial Lawyers since 1994 and designated a Super Lawyer every year since the inception of Super Lawyer rating program. Mr. Rettig has been an active trial attorney in the Eastern and Western United States District Courts since admitted to practice in the Eastern District in 1970 and in the Western District in 1971. Mr. Rettig was also admitted to practice in the Ninth Circuit in 1981, and is currently serving a three year term as a Lawyer Representative to the 9th Circuit Judicial Conference from the Eastern District of Washington. | 