LHHC Board

Robert C. Mussehl - Founder

Recently retired Seattle Trial Lawyer Robert C. Mussehl has worked with purpose and action against oppression and for peace and justice throughout his entire career as an attorney. In 1966, he graduated from the American University Law School, was Class President, received the Delta Theta Phi Scholarship Award (top 7.5% of his Class), and the Lawyer’s Cooperative Publishing Company Award for Outstanding Student in Torts. He then took himself west to Seattle.

In 1967, Mr. Mussehl earned admission to the Washington State Bar Association (WSBA #56!!), and eagerly began his legal career with Skeel, McKelvy, Henke & Betts, now known as Betts, Patterson & Mines. Fifty-six years later, on New Year’s Eve 2022, Mr. Mussehl closed the Law Office of Robert C. Mussehl, and took WSBA Honorary status with his years of active lawyering. With that chapter closed, he has more time to help more people, and through Lawyers Helping Hungry Children, all our children.

Mr. Mussehl focused his career on the representation of injured persons. He also was a sports lawyer/agent, representing several NBA players, including Spencer Haywood, Fred Brown, Slick Watts, and Zaid Abdul Aziz (nee Don Smith). He served as a King County Superior Court judge pro tempore and was a member of the ABA House of Delegates (the ABA policy maker) for twelve years. He was the co-founder of and served as Chair of the American Bar Association Section of Dispute Resolution (2001-2002).

Mr. Mussehl also served on the ABA Commission on Racial and Ethnic Diversity and served as Editor-In-Chief of the ABA Goal IX Newsletter, published to "Advocate the Role and Rights of Women and Minorities." He co-founded and chaired (in 1980) WSBA’s World Peace Through Law Section.

Mr. Mussehl held a Martindale-Hubbell (the premier National Law Directory) rating of A-V, finding him of the highest rank in legal ability, integrity, diligence and professional reliability. AVVO rated him at its highest “Level 10 (Superb).” Mr. Mussehl was a certified panel member of the American Arbitration Association for over 35 years and served many years as a volunteer mediator for the King County courts.

Author of numerous legal publications; and two spiritually advanced books: "Paradise: A Roadway To Heaven" (2006), and its expanded version: "Paradise: Practical Wisdom To Unite Our Divided World" (2023) (print & e-book versions).

David Otto - Chair

David M. Otto has been practicing law for over thirty-two years, focusing on corporate finance, securities, mergers/acquisitions, corporate governance, and capital market matters. He received his B.A. from Harvard University in 1981 and his J.D. from Fordham University School of Law in 1987. He is the founding Managing Partner at Martin Davis, PLLC, a boutique law firm based in Seattle, WA. He Co-Chaired Lawyers Helping Hungry Children with Brad Doyle in 1991 to 1993.

David Otto rejoined the Board of Lawyers Helping Hungry Children in the summer of 2018. Shortly thereafter, he was elected Chair for the 2020 calendar year.

David earned nine letters as a student athlete at Seattle Prep High School (football, baseball, and basketball). He was offered several scholarships for football including Notre Dame and Harvard (as linebacker and tight end). He chose to play at Harvard where he was named First Team All-Conference. He was invited to two NFL training camps (The Dallas Cowboys and the New York Giants). David instead chose the Casey Teaching Fellowship Program in England which he won first place out of 160 applications.

David Otto believes that access to nutritious food is a basic human right. He further believes that the lack of sufficient healthy food for hungry at-risk children is a serious social injustice that must be corrected, and rectified, as a top human rights priority. As lawyers, we provide financial aid to feeding organizations, and we advocate for high risk hungry children. Our vision is to cut hunger in half in the Pacific Northwest by 2028.

Our vision, ultimately, is to find a way to eliminate childhood hunger by developing a deeper societal awareness of the legal, educational, and economic costs attributable to this issue. This, in turn, will animate the need and support for refining and codifying the premise that at risk hungry children have an equal protection right to nutritious food under the law.

Narima Amin - Vice-Chair

Narima Amin is the Founder of Global Social Business Partners (GSBP), a nonprofit that fosters entrepreneurship and social business innovation to solve local and global community issues and address the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). She is a researcher, social business innovator, and a food system and entrepreneurship ecosystem builder who has pursued best practice, scalable and sustainable solutions to solve world hunger, poverty, and other injustices for more than 25 years.

Narima holds a B.A. in Economics & International Development Studies from the University of Toronto. She is a 2017 graduate of Leadership Eastside’s two-year Adaptive Community Leadership Program and has completed the University of Washington’s Accelerating Social Transformation (AST) certification course as well as the Growing Power Commercial Urban Agriculture training in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Narima is also a community mental health advocate facilitating a support group and leading trainings for NAMI (National Alliance on Mental Illness) Eastside.

She is currently working on launching a social business to support GSBP’s education and youth ventures.

Maureen Mannix - Member

Maureen Mannix is the immediate past chair of Lawyers Helping Hungry Children for three years, and earned her JD from Gonzaga University, graduating cum laude and a member of the Moot Court counsel and the Gonzaga Law Review.  Maureen started her career with the Spokane County Public Defenders and moved to the office of the Washington State Attorney General where she is Senior Counsel with the Labor and Industries Division. Maureen served on the WSBA Committee for Diversity for 7 years, co-chairing for two. Maureen actively volunteers in the profession including as a board member for Lawyers Helping Hungry Children (as a past secretary and past co-chair with David Moody). Maureen has chaired Lawyers Helping Hungry Children twice in the past.

Floyd R. Chapman - Member

Floyd has enjoyed a diverse securities and legal career as an investment banker, marketing director, compliance officer, and private attorney. He has trained registered representatives on new financial products as a marketing director, led corporate internal investigations and audits for market conduct compliance in multiple jurisdictions, participated in bond financings for state and local issuers and represented clients in state and federal courts. 

Floyd believes in public service. He received the “Outstanding Volunteer in Public Service Award” from The Volunteer Legal Services Program of the San Francisco Bar Association in 2006. He previously served on the Board of Directors of the Hawaii Life and Disability Insurance Guaranty Association and previously on the Board of Directors of the Fair Housing Center of Washington. Each year he provides pro bono legal services as an accredited attorney for the preparation, presentation, and prosecution of claims for Veterans before the Department of Veterans Affairs (DVA). He is a Pro Tem Judge in the Thurston and Pierce County District Courts.