Members Bios


Sharon Fairchild

Sharon Fairchild, Chair, Liberty Lake

VP, Marketing and System Development, Providence Services Eastern Washington. Former: Consultant, Fairchild Consulting, LLC; President, Group Health Northwest. Current Member: Board of Directors, Executive, Public Policy, and Nominating Committees of the Spokane Regional Chamber of Commerce; Group Health Community Foundation Board of Directors and Eastern WA Advisory Board; Mayor's Opportunity Council on Poverty; Advisory Committee of the Health Improvement Partnership. Former: Member, Idaho Small Employer and Individual Reinsurance Board; Member, Association of Washington Healthcare Plans; Member, Alliance of Community Health Plans.

Beth Willis

Beth Willis, Vice Chair, Lakewood

Director, Corporate, World Trade Center, Tacoma. M.Ed., University of Washington; BS, Sam Houston State University. Current Member: Pierce County Arts Commission Board; Board of Directors, World Affairs Council; Broadway Center for Performing Arts Board; Governing Board for Higher Education Funding. Selected by Business Examiner as 2004 “Woman of the Year.” Selected by County Executive as 2003 “Pierce County Volunteer.” Former: Board Chair, Pierce College; President, Trustees Association of Community and Technical Colleges (TACTC).

Jim Bricker

Jim Bricker, Coupeville

PEMCO Financial Services, Government Affairs since 1992. Former: Special Assistant to Governor Booth Gardner for National Affairs; served in the administrations of Governors Rosellini, Evans and Spellman; Director, Committee Services Division, Washington State Senate; Executive Committee of the National Conference of State Legislatures; Administrator, Council on Higher Education (now the HECB). Adjunct faculty, Pacific Lutheran University; Lecturer, University of Puget Sound, Graduate School, and Western Washington University. Current: Alki Foundation Board, City Club of Seattle; Executive Committee, Washington Research Council; Working Committee, Partnership for Learning; Deputy, Washington Roundtable. Retired, USMCR, Colonel.

Elizabeth Chen

Elizabeth Chen, Federal Way

Visiting Instructor of Chinese at the University of Puget Sound. Advisor to the Overseas Compatriot Affairs Commission of Taiwan, ROC. Elizabeth earned a PhD and a Master's in Statistics at the University of Wyoming, and a Bachelor's in Business at National Chengchi University, Taiwan, ROC. She was named Trustee of the Year by the Washington state Trustees Association of Community and Technical Colleges in 2006. Former: Board Chair, Board Vice Chair, and Trustee at Highline Community College; Pacific Regional Director of the National Association of Community College Trustees (ACCT); Chair, ACCT's Diversity Committee; President, South Puget Sound Chinese American Club; Member, St. Theresa's Church Parish Council.

Shaunta Hyde

Shaunta Hyde, Lake Forest Park

Director of Global Aviation Policy for Boeing Commercial Airplanes, The Boeing Company. BA, Seattle University. Executive MBA, University of Washington, Michael G. Foster School of Business. Board Vice-Chair & Co-Chair (Gov’t Affairs) - Kent Chamber of Commerce, 2002-04, 2006-present Board Member: Pioneer Human Services, Mfg. Industrial Council, SW King County Chamber. Selected by Business Examiner as 2006 “Top 40 Under 40” Awardee. Former: Vice Pres. and Board Member, Auburn Chamber of Commerce; Board Member: Seattle Chamber of Commerce, Urban Enterprise Center (UEC) & Chair, Minority Business Development Comm.; Renton Chamber of Commerce; Center for Human Services.

Erin Mundinger

Erin Mundinger, Omak

Administrator, Washington State Employment Security Department. Former: Co-owner/Manager, Corner Shelf; Analyst & Training Coordinator, National Security Agency. Former Member: Advisory Council on Adult Education; Washington State Job Training Coordinating Council; Family Independence Program State Advisory Committee; Pentad Private Industry Council; Washington State Council on Vocational Education.

Anne Fennessy

Anne Fennessy, Seattle

Vice President and Partner, Cocker Fennessy, 1995-present. BS, Sociology and Social Work, Iowa State University; Graduate Studies, University of Washington Graduate School of Social Work. Current: Secretary, The Bullitt Foundation Board of Trustees (2004-present); Executive Committee member, Greater Seattle Chamber of Commerce (2004-present); Trustee, Downtown Seattle Association Board (2008-present); Director, One Reel Productions Board (2008-present); Trustee, Teatro Zizanni Board (2008-present); Councilor, Pioneer Square Residents’ Council (2009-present). Former member of the Pike Place Market Foundation Board of Directors, member of Seattle Culinary Academy Capital Campaign at Seattle Central Community College, former adjunct instructor at Cascade Center of the Daniel J. Evans School of Public Affairs at the University of Washington (1994 – 2005) Served as Communications Director for Governor Mike Lowry (1993 – 1995) and Corporate Communications and Marketing Director for Port of Seattle (1990 – 1993) and previously Press Secretary to Seattle Mayor Charles Royer (1987-1989).

Wayne Martin

Wayne Martin, Kennewick

Dr. Wayne J. Martin is an environmental scientist at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), which is operated by Battelle for the U.S. Department of Energy. PNNL is located at the Hanford Site in southeastern Washington State, which has the largest quantity of radioactive waste in the world. Dr. Martin is a graduate of Washington State University with a Ph.D. in Environmental and Natural Resource Sciences. Wayne served as a Trustee at Columbia Basin College from 2000 -2010. As a Trustee he participated in the Student Achievement Initiative task force among other system work.

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Larry Brown, Auburn

Larry Brown, Legislative and Political Director for the Aerospace Machinists Union District Lodge 751, has worked in the aerospace industry for 33 years and for the union for 12 years. Larry has served the Machinists Union — which represents more than 28,000 and hourly employees at The Boeing Company — as a steward, local lodge officer, district council delegate, staff assistant, and union representative. He serves on the Governor-appointed Washington Council on Aerospace. Larry served as a trustee at Green River Community College for 13 years (from 1998 to 2011), as president of TACTC in 2005-06, and chair of the TACTC Legislative Steering Committee Chair, 2001-03 .He has served on many significant public policy committees over the years. He earned his bachelor's degree from the National Labor College in Maryland.

 

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