Ed Wolfe is a successful business attorney with offices in Silverdale and Seattle. He is a real fan of the City of Bremerton and of Kitsap County. He plans to move the Wolfe Law Offices into a refurbished building in downtown Bremerton in July.

In February, Wolfe represented Paladin Data Systems Corporation, a Poulsbo software development company, winning $654,000 in a counter suit against Metro-Net Services Corporation of Seattle, as reported in the March issue of the Kitsap Business Journal.

“This was a big win for Paladin,” said Wolfe recently, “and for Kitsap County.”

Gary Macy, chairman of the board for Paladin, said of Wolfe’s work, “Our legal representatives did an outstanding job of presenting a clear case based on extremely complex technical and legal issues.”

“Paladin is integrally involved in the community,” Wolfe continued. The company’s CFO Jim Page is incoming president of the Olympic College Foundation. Macy sits on the board of Harrison Hospital, and Jim Nall, president and CEO, is the founder of Trek Gymnasium in Poulsbo, providing training and competition for kids throughout Kitsap County.

Wolfe shares Paladin’s passion for civic service. He is past president for both the Puget Sound Naval Base Association and the Bremerton Area Chamber of Commerce, and serves on the boards of the Admiral Theatre, the Kitsap County Historical Society and the Bremerton Rotary Club. Professionally, he is on the board of trustees for the Kitsap Bar Association and is a judge pro tem in Kitsap County District Court.

Wolfe first came to the Pacific Northwest while working for the US Government negotiating the Pacific Salmon Treaty. He met with government leaders of Washington, Oregon and Alaska, as well as tribal and industry representatives. And, “I fell in love with the State of Washington.” He climbed Mt. Rainier while here from Washington, DC, where he served in both the Reagan and first Bush administrations.

In 1997, he and his wife Wendy Miles, living in Seattle then, bought a “weekend house” on Dyes Inlet. They found themselves staying longer and longer, moving to Bremerton in 1998, “and never looked back.”

Wolfe’s son Steven, 15, lives with his mother in the Washington, DC area, but spends a considerable amount of time with his father here.

“I believe in Bremerton,” Wolfe proclaimed. He is investing his life and career here, moving his Kitsap law office directly across the street from the new government center. A 1930s house is being renovated for the law offices and other businesses.

“Revitalization is here,” Wolfe said of Bremerton. “It is not coming. What’s good for Bremerton is good for the whole county.” He lauds the leadership of Mayor Cary Bozeman, as well as the city council and county commissioners for “making this happen.”

With his varied and interesting background, it is no surprise that Wolfe has contemplated running for political office someday, “if the possibility came up, the time was right, and the right position were to develop.” It would be another way of “getting things done for my community.”.