Scott came from Seattle to Tacoma to attend the University of Puget Sound (now Seattle University) Law School. During law school, he interned as a Deputy Prosecuting Attorney in Pierce County, and after receiving his Juris Doctor degree, he practiced as a Deputy Prosecutor in King County before moving to private practice with the Morton McGoldrick firm in Tacoma. After several years with that firm, he joined North Pacific Bank, a two-branch community bank in South Tacoma, where he eventually became CEO. He helped sell that bank in the late 1990s, after which he returned to the practice of law with Vandeberg Johnson Gandara P.S., a long-established Tacoma business law firm, where he still practices in the areas of trust and estate administration and litigation. Scott has served on many nonprofit boards, including the United Way and Hilltop Artists, served two terms on the Tacoma Planning Commission, and is now a Commissioner with the Pierce County Housing Authority. In his spare time, he likes to garden and cook using recipes from Washington Grown and America’s Test Kitchen, two of the many programs he enjoys on KBTC.
