Certified Women-Owned Businesses in Spokane (2026)

An electrical contractor doing solar, a commercial diving company, a sheet metal fabricator, a printer, a pediatric practice, a grant writer, and a firm making a patented sock that helps people dress themselves. Twenty-nine businesses in the Spokane record hold Washington State WBE certification, which is a stronger claim than anything else in this directory, and this guide is organized around what that certification is actually for.

Every business named here links to its profile, where each ownership tag shows the source it came from. For everything in the metro, filter the Spokane hub.

Quick answer

1. Electrical and solar: Spokane Electric.
2. Sheet metal and HVAC: TRM Services.
3. Powder coating and sandblasting: I-90 Express Finishing.
4. Fire and security systems: CAMTEK.
5. Commercial diving: Associated Underwater Services.
6. Specification writing: Integrated Spec Solutions.
7. Printing: Lawton Printing. Grants: SpokeAnna.
8. The Spokane hub carries all 42 listings across 11 categories.

What WBE certification means, and what it does not

Washington's Office of Minority and Women's Business Enterprises certifies a business as a women's business enterprise after checking who owns and controls it. That is why the listings in this metro are marked certified rather than publicly listed: a state agency has already done the verification that this directory otherwise records as a claim.

What it does not tell you is anything about price, quality or capacity. A certification answers one question, ownership, and answers it well. Everything else is still your call.

It matters most in two situations. If you buy on behalf of a public agency or a prime contractor with participation goals, a certified firm can satisfy the requirement without you verifying anything yourself. And if you are a smaller firm bidding as a subcontractor, the register is where the primes go looking.

The trades and the industrial side

Spokane Electric delivers electrical and solar work for homes and businesses, and says plainly on its own site that it is women-owned. TRM Services in Spokane Valley fabricates commercial and industrial sheet metal and installs HVAC. I-90 Express Finishing powder coats and sandblasts. CAMTEK integrates fire and security systems for industrial processes and operations. Applied Industrial Systems in Deer Park supplies chilled water systems, and H.E. Solutions in Liberty Lake works on building energy.

Associated Underwater Services is a commercial diving outfit working from Spokane into Seattle and northern California. There is not another listing like it in this directory.

Design, documentation and the paperwork of a project

Integrated Spec Solutions writes the specifications architects build from, on projects from small tenant improvements upward, which is exactly the kind of subcontract a participation goal is usually met with. Design Source has done interior design here for decades. KB Markings does road markings and line striping, and Movher moves the contents once the building is finished, pianos included.

Health, screening and the workforce

Centennial Pediatrics of Spokane takes children and young adults. Innerlight Wellness in Liberty Lake offers therapy, telehealth, nutritional psychiatry and group programs. Townsend Medical Services does center of excellence evaluations for autism spectrum disorder, and L.E.A.P.S. and Beyond works with children on communication and development.

For employers: Occupational Health Solutions reduces workplace risk and recordables, and Pinnacle Investigations has run pre-employment screening for more than 38 years.

Communications, money and advice

Lawton Printing is the commercial printer. MAKER AND MADE is a full-service creative agency, KR Creative Strategies in Medical Lake specializes in agriculture, conservation and history clients, and S2M Enterprises works in media. SpokeAnna writes grants across the Pacific Northwest, which is the listing every nonprofit in this county should have bookmarked.

We Are Kaizen advises on technology decisions without selling the technology. Milepost 42, Freedom Consulting and Measure Meant work with owners and organizations on how the business runs. RW Bookkeeping & Notary keeps the books and LeBlanc Insurance Group is an independent agency in the city.

And BEEDLEBUG in Nine Mile Falls makes a patented pulley sock, a universal design that makes dressing easier for seniors, children and anyone else who needs it. It is a product business in a record full of service firms, and it is the one people remember.

What the record does not cover yet

Twenty-nine of the 42 published Spokane listings hold WBE certification; seven hold MBE certification and six carry a Black-owned tag from other sources. Fifteen certified firms are in Spokane itself, the rest in Spokane Valley, Liberty Lake, Medical Lake, Nine Mile Falls and Deer Park.

The register reaches contractors, suppliers and professional firms and almost never reaches a restaurant, a shop or a salon, so the consumer side of Spokane is thin here. The same register holds 392 firms in Seattle, which is the obvious next place to point it. A free listing does not require certification, and a business that is not on the state register can still be on this page.

Common mistakes

• Reading certification as endorsement. It verifies ownership. It says nothing about the work.
• Assuming a certified firm only wants public work. Most of these sell to anyone; certification is a door into procurement, not a restriction.
• Confusing WBE and MBE. They are separate certifications, and a listing shows which it holds. Several firms hold both.
• Expecting the certification to be current. Registers are snapshots. Ask a firm for its current certificate before you rely on it for a bid.

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