Wendie Kellington

Wendie L. Kellington is the President of Kellington Law Group PC. She is a Martindale Hubble AV rated and Chambers Best Lawyers attorney practicing law since 1983. She is known in Oregon and nationally for her expertise in administrative law matters ranging from land development, private property rights, religious land use, aviation, aerial rights and the emerging law of uncrewed vehicles.

Wendie is a frequent state and national presenter on land development, private property rights, governmental entitlements, and navigable airspace. She served on the faculty of the ALI-ABA Land Use Institute for more than 25 years and the Oregon Land Use Law Institute for more than 20 years. She represents private property owners, companies, institutions, institutional developers on topics ranging from complex industrial, commercial and residential siting to aviation, airport development and autonomous integration as well as religious institutions under the federal Religious Land Use and Institutionalize Persons Act. She is president of the Association for Uncrewed Vehicles International (AUVSI) Cascade Chapter covering the Pacific Northwest, Vice President of AUVSI’s Chapter Presidents Council, and president of the Arlington Club Toastmasters group. Wendie served as Board Member and Chief Board Member for the Oregon Land Use Board of Appeals, deciding significant Oregon land use cases over a span of several years. She also served on the Oregon State Building Structures Board. Wendie volunteers her time working on the plague of homelessness and in particular focuses on chronic homelessness among the severely mentally ill, to include arranging a conference of experts in Los Angeles and giving the 2018 ABA Land Use Institute (Detroit) keynote on Homelessness. She loves to run and swim and to ride her bike wherever it takes her.

Wendie has a B.S. in Political Science from Southern Oregon University (1979) and a JD, Cum Laude, from the University of Puget Sound (1983).