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Biography

Metropolitan King County Council (1994-present)

• Vice Chair of Council for Council Affairs (2006)
• Chair, Employment Committee (2006)
• Chair, Operating Budget Panel, Annual Budget Reconciliation and Adoption Committee (2006)
• Vice Chair, Committee of the Whole (2006)
  Vice Chair, Labor, Operations & Technology Committee (2004 & 2006)
• Policy Chair of Natural Resources, Parks & Utilities – Growth Management & Natural Resources Committee (2006)
• Vice Chair, Regional Water Quality Committee (2006)
• Member, Operations Budget Committee (2006)
• Member, Capital Budget Committee (2006)
• Member Transportation Committee (1994 - present)
• Member, Legislative Steering Committee (1997 - present)
• Chair, Labor, Operations & Technology Committee (2005)
• Vice Chair Budget & Fiscal Management Committee (2000 - 2005)
• Vice Chair, Natural Resources & Utilities Committee (2002 – 2005)
• Member, Regional Policy Committee (2005)
• Chair, Growth Management Committee (1998 & 2002-2003)
• Vice Chair Growth Management Committee (2001)
• Member, Growth Management Committee (1994 – 2003)
• Vice Chair, Utilities & Technology Committee (2000 – 2001)
• Chair, Budget & Fiscal Management Committee (1999)
• Chair, Council and Committee of the Whole (1996 & 1997)
• Chair, Law, Justice & Human Services Committee (1994 & 1995)
• Member, Labor Operations & Technology Committee (2002 – Present)
  

Other Committee Memberships

• King County Council representative to enterpriseSeattle (2006)
• King County Council Eastside Representative, Eastside Transportation Partnership
• Puget Sound Regional Council Operations Committee (2002 – present)
• Puget Sound Regional Council Executive Board (2006)
• SR 520 Bridge Replacement and HOV Project Executive Committee (2006)
• PSRC Growth Management Policy Board (2002)
• Cultural Development Authority Board (2003 – present)
• King County Cultural Coordinating Council (2002)
• King County Strategic Advisory Council (2002)
• Growth Management Planning Council (1994 – 2003)
• Growth Management Planning Council, Executive Committee (2002)
• King County Council representative to Sound Transit Board (1996 – 2002)
  

Bellevue City Council (1990-1993)

• Chair, Finance Committee and the Downtown Housing Study Group
• Member, Human Services Roundtable
• Member, Metro Council
• Led the first vote on property tax reform to use less than the allowed six percent auto tax increase
• Initiated the first zero-base budget
  

Manager, King County Records and Elections Division (1986-1993)

• Initiated Election Reform Legislation, Vote by Mail Elections, and Local Voters Pamphlet

Professional Organizations and Awards

• Children’s Champion, Kirkland Business & Professional Women
• Citizen of the Year, Standing Ovation
• Recipient 2002 Smart Growth Office of the Year Award, National Association of Homebuilders
• Immediate Past President, National Association of Counties (2001-2002)
• President, National Association of Counties (2000-2001)
• President-elect, National Association of Counties (1999-2000)
• First Vice President, National Association of Counties (1998-1999)
• Second Vice President, National Association of Counties (1997-1998)
• Board Member, Washington State Association of Counties (1994-present)
• President, Washington Association of County Officials (1991-1992)
• Member, Bellevue Downtown Rotary Club (1989-present)
• King County Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Humanitarian Appreciation Award (1993)
• Who’s Who of American Women (1991 & 1996)
• American Society of Public Administrators Public Service Award (1988)
• Bellevue Planning Commission (1986-1989)
  

Community Service & Professional Activities

• Board of Directors, King County Boys & Girls Club (1999 – present)
• Member, Act One Guild, Performance Arts Center Eastside (PACE) (2004 – present)
• Chair, Kids Auction, Boys & Girls Clubs of King County (2005)
• Board Member, Bellevue Community College Foundation (1991-1993)
• Advisory Committee, Youth Eastside Services (1998 – present)
• Board of Trustees, the Overlake School) 1994-2000)
• Board Member, Eastside Sexual Assault Center for Children (1991-1992)
  

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