Anna Friedhoff
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Practice Emphases
Family Law, Complex Divorce, Asset Division
Professional Experience
Anna Friedhoff first joined Stahancyk, Kent & Hook as a law clerk in the summer of 2012. Before working at Stahancyk, Anna interned at the Multnomah County District Attorney’s office in the Neighborhood Unit. She spent time in each neighborhood sector working with DAs on issues ranging from gang violence to TriMet violations. While at Oregon Law, Anna served on the leadership for the Moot Court Board and held the position of Senior Editor on the Oregon Review of International Law. She spent her last semester in law school as a client advocate in the Domestic Violence Clinic where she represented victims of abuse and made court appearances in Lane County Circuit Court. Prior to law school, Anna interned in the public sector and for local non-profit organizations. She spent a semester working for Senator Ron Wyden in Washington, DC, a summer at the Democratic Party of Oregon, and another summer with Focus the Nation. Anna became a shareholder at Stahancyk, Kent & Hook in 2019.
Education
University of Oregon School of Law
Eugene, OR · J.D. – 2013
Gonzaga University
Spokane, WA · B.A. Political Science & Public Relations, Magna Cum Laude – 2010
St. Mary’s Academy
Portland, OR – 2006
Professional Activities
Anna is an active member of the Oregon State Bar, Washington State Bar, and Oregon Women Lawyers. She is also a member of the Oregon New Lawyers Division and the Multnomah Bar Association.
Community Involvement
In 2020, Anna began a three-year-term on the Board of Directors for the University Club of Portland. Currently, she is the Chair of the Young Professional Committee and the Board Liaison to the Food & Beverage Committee. For more than a century, the University Club has grown into a quality network of people seeking personal and professional relationships.
In April 2017, she was elected as a Board Member of the South Portland Neighborhood Association. After a year, Anna was promoted to the role of Secretary and the representative to the Southwest Neighborhoods, Inc. The goal of neighborhood involvement is to build inclusive, safe, and livable communities.
In 2015, Anna eagerly joined the Italian Business Club (“IBC”) as one of its first female members. She was honored to accept the invitation from a fellow Italian lawyer in town. This Club began in 1952 in Portland as the all-male Italian Businessmen’s Club with the objective of charity, friendship, building business contacts, and promoting Italian heritage. In 2016, Anna was elected to the IBC Foundation Board. As a board member, she was responsible for the annual IBC Foundation Scholarship which provides funds to college students of Italian heritage who are advancing in a degree related to Italian study.
In April of 2014 Anna, along with Shareholder Laurel Hook, gave an innovative presentation to students at Ainsworth Elementary School’s Career Fair in which they used Goldilocks and the Three Bears to illustrate how courts make decisions and the role attorneys play in the process.
In the fall of 2012, Anna volunteered with the Portia Project by helping female inmates at Coffee Creek Correctional Facility complete their divorce paperwork. During her second year in law school, she volunteered as a community mediator in Lane County Circuit Court.
Download the presentation materials here.
Since 2020, Anna has volunteered for the Multnomah Athletic Foundation (“MAF”) as a scholarship reader for the MAC Scholar Athlete program. MAF scholarships are available to students attending the Portland metro-area’s 30 high schools who have demonstrated an ability to succeed in sports and academics. Anna received this Scholarship in 2003, and she was recently featured in the Winged M.
In 2022, Anna accepted a position on the Child Centered Solutions Board of Directions, which is a non-profit organization that works to protect the rights of children in high-conflict family disputes. Anna is particularly passionate about the goal of helping parents and professionals provide a voice to children.
Awards and Achievements
- 2022 · Rising Stars, Super Lawyers
- 2022 · Best Lawyers, Best Lawyers
- 2021 · Rising Stars, Super Lawyers
- 2020 · Rising Stars, Super Lawyers
- 2019 · Rising Stars, Super Lawyers
- 2018 · Rising Stars, Super Lawyers
- 2017 · Rising Stars, Super Lawyers
Anna was recently named to the Top 10 Under 40 list by the National Academy of Family Law Attorneys. She was a Wayne Morse Fellow for Law and Politics and received a scholarship to the University of Oregon School of Law as part of her fellowship. In her third year of law school, Anna was awarded the Orlando John and Marian H. Hollis Scholarship as a student who excelled in civil procedure and conflict of laws.
In the Fall of 2013, Anna was published in the Oregon Review of International Law for a scholarly article she wrote entitled: “Bras and Ballots: Comparing Women’s Political Participation in Pakistan and Saudi Arabia.”
Interests
Anna played four years of Division I golf for Gonzaga University and she is the former two-time club champion at Riverside Golf and Country Club. Anna still enjoys a competitive golf match. She also believes that she has the best of both worlds when its comes to cheering for her alma mater’s sports teams: Gonzaga basketball and Oregon football. Anna is a life-long Portlander who resides in the Laurelhurst neighborhood where she is a parishioner at All Saints.