Gregoire daughter to wed next summer

OLYMPIA – Washington Gov. Chris Gregoire’s daughter Courtney, a Harvard-educated lawyer who serves as a top adviser to Sen. Maria Cantwell, is getting married.

The governor and her husband, Mike, announced Wednesday that their elder daughter will marry Scott Lindsay, a Washington, D.C., lawyer who grew up in Seattle, next summer.

The date and location for the wedding have not been decided, but will be in the state. The couple announced their engagement Tuesday evening at the Gregoire cabin at Hayden Lake, Idaho, where the whole family, including younger daughter Michelle, have been vacationing.

“Mike and I are absolutely thrilled for Courtney and Scott and look forward to helping them make wedding plans,” the governor told the Associated Press. Courtney Gregoire grew up in Olympia and is a graduate of Willamette University and Harvard Law School. She met her 29-year-old fiancé when both worked at the Washington, D.C., office of the Seattle-based Preston Gates law firm. Lindsay still works there, but Gregoire moved to Cantwell’s Senate staff in February. She is the senator’s legislative director and general counsel.

Besides being Cantwell’s in-house attorney, Gregoire oversees the senator’s legislative agenda and the work of policy aides.

Lindsay graduated from the Bush School in Seattle and has undergraduate and law degrees from Georgetown University.