Areas of Practice
Ms. Woods practices primarily in the area of nonprofit and tax-exempt organizations. She chairs the firm's Tax-Exempt Organizations (TEO) group and is a member of the Tax and Health Law Sections.

Representative Experience
Ms. Woods represents nonprofit organizations in matters such as qualification for tax exemption, mergers and restructuring, joint ventures and entrepreneurial activities, intermediate sanctions, creation of "friends of" and supporting organizations, unrelated business income tax, Internet-based activities, conversions to and from tax-exempt status, advocacy, charitable solicitations, endowment management, and tax-exempt bond financing. She helps private foundations establish grantmaking compliance programs and provides grantmaking training workshops. Ms. Woods has a particular interest in international philanthropy, venture philanthropy, health care, Internet use by nonprofits, and public/private partnerships. She also advises both donors and charities on charitable giving.

Prior Experience
Prior to joining Davis Wright Tremaine LLP in 1987, Ms. Woods practiced in Washington, D.C., where she was involved in tax legislative matters.

Representative Clients
Family and corporate private foundations, community foundations, hospitals, health maintenance organizations, state and private colleges and universities, social service and arts organizations, trade associations, and governmental agencies

Publications and Presentations
Ms. Woods is a frequent speaker at national and regional conferences. She is the author of numerous articles on exempt organization topics, including recent publications in The Exempt Organization Tax Review, Journal of Taxation and The Journal of Taxation of Exempt Organizations.

Memberships and Activities
Ms. Woods is Chair of the American Bar Association Section of Taxation Exempt Organizations Committee and co-convener of the Legal Work Group advising the Independent Sector’s Panel on the Nonprofit Sector. She is a member of the American Law Institute, the American Health Lawyers Association and is a past chair of the Washington State Bar Association Business Section's Nonprofit Corporations Committee. She has taught in the University of Washington School of Law’s Graduate Program in Taxation and is listed in The Best Lawyers in America and has been selected to “Super Lawyers,” Washington Law & Politics.

Education
J.D., cum laude, Harvard University School of Law, 1983

B.A., French and English Literature, summa cum laude, Yale University, 1978

Fulbright Scholar, Dakar, Senegal