Celeste Mountain Monroe

Celeste Mountain Monroe is a member of the firm’s employment and education teams. An experienced advocate, Celeste has a proven track record of tackling diverse issues with creativity and competence. She understands the need to minimize disruption to her client’s operations and goals, preserve valuable relationships, and remain responsive and accessible throughout the engagement.

A seasoned employment lawyer, Celeste provides the type of well-informed, timely, effective, hands-on, and practical legal guidance that clients require. She advises human resource teams and company leaders in public and private entities on all aspects of the employment relationship, including hiring, discipline, and termination, as well as disability accommodation and wage and hour compliance. She drafts critical contracts and policies and develops training programs for clients of all sizes.

Celeste also has significant experience conducting independent investigations. Over the past decade, Celeste has handled hundreds of investigations of alleged misconduct, discrimination, harassment, and retaliation arising in workplaces and schools throughout Washington and Oregon. She is also a certified sexual assault investigator through the Association of Title IX Administrators (ATIXA).

In her education practice, Celeste works with public and private schools on a full range of issues. This includes advising clients on traditional employment-related matters, as well as providing guidance on all aspects of their operations, such as special education, student discipline, disability accommodation, and critical contracts.

Before joining Miller Nash, Celeste practiced at a Pacific Northwest law firm where she provided employment and education law counseling and litigation services. During law school, she clerked in the Appellate Division of the Oregon Department of Justice.