Stella L. Pitts has been managing her own family law practice, Stella L. Pitts & Associates, PLLC since 2001. Although Ms. Pitts concentrates primarily on family law involving complex dissolution and custody, she is also expanding her practice to include mediations, personal wills, and small business areas. She is an experienced trial lawyer.
       Ms. Pitts entered the legal profession by managing small law firms in Alaska and Texas for over 10 years. At the same time, she earned an undergraduate degree from the University of Alaska, Anchorage in 1980 with a major in Business Administration, and a law degree from the University of Houston Law Center in 1986. She began her work as an attorney with four years at two civil litigation firms in the Seattle area, Keller Rohrback and Casey Gordon Davis, gaining experience in divorce law. She then opened a partnership practice in Seattle focusing primarily on family law.
     In her family law practice, Ms. Pitts concentrates on restructuring families through a focus on integrity and problem-solving during a divorce or in other difficult times. She believes in the concept of transformational law, which defines law as a healing profession whose purpose is to optimize human well-being in their complicated relationships with other humans.
     Ms. Pitts is a member of the American Bar Association, Washington State Bar Association, King County Bar Association and the King County Washington Women Lawyers, for the last of which she served as president in 1996. She regularly conducts continuing legal education seminars on family law issues. On a personal level, Ms. Pitts actively participates in the political process, is deeply concerned about children's treatment in the court system, and works towards improving society's status quo.

  Shana Thompson comes to Pitts Law with 8 years of experience in Family Practice Law, including dissolution of marriage, legal separation, meretricious relationship, paternity, and non-parental custody actions. Shana also prepares and reviews pre-nuptial agreements and represents parties in modifications of child support and parenting plan orders.
     Shana received her J.D. from the Seattle University School of Law in 1999 and was admitted to the Washington State Bar in 2000.

   Benjamin A. Lilien joined Stella Pitts & Associates, PLLC in 2007. Ben assists clients with a broad range of family law matters, including pre and post marital agreements, dissolutions, complex property distributions and parenting disputes. He is experienced in litigation and in mediation and arbitration. He advocates on behalf of clients in King, Snohomish, Pierce and Kitsap Counties.
     Before moving to Seattle, Ben lived in the San Francisco Bay Area. He obtained his law degree and a B.A. in history with departmental honors from Stanford University.  During law school, Ben gained litigation experience as a member of the Stanford Environmental Law Clinic and he served as an Executive Editor and member of the Article Review Board for the Environmental Law Journal.
      During his undergraduate studies, he was a member of the Board of Directors and Executive Committee of Hillel at Stanford University as well as the President and Founder of the Stanford University Jewish Leadership Council.
      In his spare time, Ben roots for his former hometown team, the New York Yankees (when he is not watching the Seattle Mariners) and enjoys the outdoor activities offered by the magnificent Northwest.

   Kevin Rowles has been in the legal field since 2004, as an intern with Snohomish County Public Defenders and as intern/Juvenile Advocate at Seattle University Law School’s Youth Advocacy Clinic in 2005. Kevin graduated from Seattle University Law School in 2005.
       Since 2005, Kevin has worked in the areas of personal injury and family law with the Law Offices of David S. Roth and Stella L. Pitts & Associates. Kevin has worked closely with the attorneys of Stella L. Pitts & Associates since February 2007 and anticipates taking and passing the Washington State Bar Exam in February, 2008.

   Glenn MacGilvra has been practicing family law now for over 10 years. He grew up in Seattle, received an undergraduate degree in History from Princeton University, and then a J.D. in 1985 from Boalt Hall, School of Law, at the University of California in Berkeley. After passing both California and Washington bars, Glenn spent time working as a law clerk for the Minnesota Supreme Court, taught legal writing and research at Berkeley, and then worked   for the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals and for the Chief Judge for the Federal District Court for the Northern District of California.
      After leaving California to return home to Seattle, Glenn spent some time away from the legal profession, working as an aide for a King County Councilmember and getting a degree in urban design and planning from the University of Washington in 1996. Since 1997 Glenn has been involved in family law, working first for the Prince Law Firm and now for Stella Pitts & Associates.

  Kristine Linn joined Stella Pitts & Associates in 2007, the same year she received her Advanced Paralegal certification from Edmonds Community College. She graduated with honors from Pomona College where she received her B.A. in English literature. She also holds an M.A. and Ph.C. in English literature. Kristine taught writing and literature courses at the University of Washington and Seattle University. She is a member of the Washington State Paralegal Association.