Board of Directors & Staff

2009 Board of Directors

  • Susan Adkins
    President
    Community Volunteer
  • David F. McShea
    Vice President
    Partner, Perkins Coie LLP
  • Robert Carlile
    Treasurer
    Managing Partner, KPMG Seattle
  • Anne Repass
    Secretary
    Community Volunteer

  • David C. Williams
    Immediate Past President
    Former President, The Harris
  • Ross C. Baker
    Manager, Legislative & Regulatory Affairs
    Regence Blue Shield
  • John Stuart Calhoun
    Senior Vice President & Regional Director Personal Trust
    Union Bank
  • Sue Coliton
    Vice President
    The Paul G. Allen Charitable Foundation
  • Theodore J. Collins
    Counsel, Perkins Coie
    Adjunct Professor of Law, Seattle University Law School
  • Jack Faris
    Retired President
    WA Biotechnology & Biomedical Association
  • Jodi Green
    Community Volunteer
  • Suzanne Hittman
    Community Volunteer
  • Macon L. Howard
    Retired Vice President
    Morgan Stanley Dean Witter
  • Gretchen Jacobsen
    Community Volunteer
  • Kelley Kurtzman
    President, Pacific Northwest Region
    Verizon Wireless
  • Carla Lewis
    President
    Washington Women's Foundation
  • Lynn Pigott Mowe
    Community Volunteer
  • Glenna Olson
    Sr. V.P. & Managing Director
    US Bank
  • Deborah Rosen
    Educator and Community Volunteer
  • Ira Rubinstein
    Retired-Associate General Counsel
    Microsoft
  • Ryan Sawyer
    Financial Advisor
    Merrill Lynch
  • David Schneiderman
    Senior Counselor
    Abernathy MacGregor Group
  • Annie Searle
    Retired Senior Vice President
    JP Morgan Chase
  • Ina Tateuchi
    Trustee
    Tateuchi Foundation
  • Patricia Walker
    Community Volunteer
  • Catie Wilson
    Senior Product Manager
    Microsoft Corporation

Ex-Officio

  • Susan Hildreth
    City Librarian
  • Deborah Prince
    President, Friends of the Library

Emeritus Board

  • Steve Wolf, President
  • Patricia Akiyama
  • Fay G. Allen
  • Gilbert W. Anderson
  • Ruthanna “Fam” Bayless
  • Marcella Benditt
  • Ron Chew
  • David R. Davis, M.D.
  • Anne V. Farrell
  • Maria L. Koh
  • Linda Larson
  • Matthew G. Medlin
  • Chuck Riley
  • Caryl Roman

Foundation Staff

  • Jonna Ward
    Executive Director
  • Sharon Griggins
    Director Development & Communications
  • Mike Rojas
    Senior Finance Manager