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Washington state’s top legal officer will speak at local Rotary club’s June 12 meeting.

Attorney General Bob Ferguson will be speaking about the work of the Office of the Attorney General and taking questions from those in attendance.

The Grand Coulee Dam Rotary Club’s meeting at The Siam Palace starts at noon next Wednesday, and the public is welcome to attend.

Although not a Rotarian himself, Ferguson has the goal of visiting every Rotary Club in the state, with the local club being the 151st out of roughly 180 in the state, according to a staff member at the Attorney General’s Office.

Ferguson began his legal career in Spokane before being elected to the King County Council in 2003. He became attorney general in 2013.

He was named one of TIME’s 100 most influential people in 2017 as profiled by George Takei, a gay man who was also in an American-Japanese internment camp as a child before going on to play Mr. Sulu in the original series of Star Trek.

Takei praised Ferguson for standing up for gay rights, and for filing the lawsuit that went on to stop President Donald Trump’s travel ban on seven Muslim-majority countries.

“Every morning at the school,” Takei wrote, “in a black, tar-paper barrack, we began the day by pledging allegiance to the flag: ‘With liberty and justice for all.’

“Bob Ferguson clearly believes everyone deserves those guarantees, no matter their background. That is, after all, what makes us Americans. We are a country of immigrants. And it was thrilling to watch him speak out in the court of law in order to ensure a better and truer democracy.”

A two-time state chess champion, Ferguson is an avid hiker, mountain climber and baseball fan. He and his wife are parents of 11-year-old twins.