Joy Dougherty graduated from University of Arizona and holds a law degree from Thomas Jefferson School of Law in San Diego, CA. She began her law practice doing workers’ compensation in Oregon. She joined the Workers’ Compensation Board in 2003, and in 2010 became an ALJ. In October 2013, she was appointed Presiding ALJ. She… read more

Graduate, Claremont Men’s College, 1971, magna cum laude; University of Oregon School of Law, 1974. Admitted to practice in Oregon, United States District Court, District of Oregon, Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Deputy district attorney for four years, then LHWCA and Oregon workers’ compensation defense attorney, 1979 to April 2018: SAIF Corporation (25… read more

David A. Hytowitz has been an Oregon lawyer since 1975. From 1976 through 1999, he represented injured workers in State and Longshore and Harbor Workers’ compensation and personal injury cases. As an active member of ATLA (now AAJ) and a partner in a law firm which created the National Association of Claimants Compensation Attorneys, he… read more