Advisory Council Tri-Cities

Fostering Closer Ties

The Washington State University Tri-Cities Advisory Council consists of 17 members appointed by the President of the University. The Council is comprised of members of business, civic, and education communities as well as alumni who have an interest in Washington State University Tri-Cities. The council's primary mission is to foster closer ties between Washington State University Tri-Cities, its alumni, the community, region, and state.

The Advisory Council meets monthly. The members are:

Mike Schwenk

Chair
Vice President and Director, Pacific Northwest National Laboratories
Term Expires: Dec. 31, 2010

Mike Schwenk is Vice President and Director of Commercial Partnerships at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), a U.S. Department of Energy multiprogram national laboratory operated by Battelle. Schwenk’s responsibilities include industrial contract research, technology commercialization, and partnerships associated with economic development. Additionally, Schwenk coordinates PNNL’s commercial business among four other national laboratories managed or co-managed by Battelle, as well as the corporate center in Columbus, Ohio. Schwenk has thirty years of technical and business management experience in government, entrepreneurial, non-profit and corporate settings, ranging in scale from his own two-person business to a 300-person corporate operation. He has participated in dozens of business transactions, including government privatization, business startups, technology licensing, and corporate relocations/expansions. Schwenk is very involved in projects to improve the business climate and quality of life in his community and throughout the Pacific Northwest. He has a Master’s Degree in Management and a Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering.

Brad Fisher

Vice Chair

Senior Vice President & Branch Director, RBC Wealth Management
Term Expires: Dec. 31, 2010

Brad Fisher has served as the branch director and financial consultant for RBC Wealth Management since July 2006. Prior to this position, he was a financial advisor and branch office manager at Piper Jaffray the previous 20 years. A native of the Tri-Cities, Fisher has been actively involved in community service in the area and was a former Mayor and councilmember of the City of Kennewick. He was the president of the Tri-Cities Cancer Center Foundation, a board member of the Columbia Basin College Foundation, co-chairman of the Tri-Cities Goodwill Games Organizing Committee and a member of Richland Rotary. In 1998, Senator Slade Gordon invited him to be on his Washington State Advisory Committee. Fisher attended the University of Washington and earned his bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from Washington State University in 1979. He presently serves as a member of the WSU Foundation Board of Trustees and is a board member of the Mid-Columbia Reading Foundation.

He and his wife Jennifer have four children and reside in Richland.

Carl Adrian

CEO TRIDEC
Term Expires: Dec. 31, 2010

Carl Adrian has been the CEO and President the Tri-City Industrial Development Council (TRIDEC) since September 2003. TRIDEC is the lead economic development organization in for Benton and Franklin Counties. It offers businesses interested in expanding to the Tri-Cities area the most comprehensive and business-specific assistance available in the region. Adrian comes to TRIDEC from the Waterloo/Cedar Falls area of Iowa, where he served as President of the Cedar Valley Economic Development Corporation since 1994. Prior to accepting the position with Cedar Valley EDC, Adrian served as the President of the Casper Area Economic Development Alliance, Inc. based in Casper, Wyoming and before that was Vice President of the Quad-City Development Group in the Quad-City area of Iowa and Illinois. Adrian is a native of Omaha, Nebraska. He has a Master’s Degree in Urban and Economic Geography and a Bachelor’s Degree in Political Science and Geography from the University of Iowa.

Frank Armijo

Program Director & General Manager, Lockheed Martin
Term Expires: Dec. 31, 2009

J. Frank Armijo is Program Director and General Manager for Lockheed Martin Information Systems and Global Services. He is responsible for the several government and commercial programs managed out of the Richland, Wash., business unit including the Hanford program. Armijo has more than 20 years of business experience and has received several industry and corporate awards, including the 2005 NOVA Award, which is the highest honor given to a Lockheed Martin employee. He served two terms on the Washington Technology Center Board and the Washington Software Alliance. He also served as chairman of TRIDEC, the regional economic development organization, and currently is TRIDEC’s vice chairman of Higher Education. Armijo was appointed to Washington Learns for the State of Washington chaired by Governor Christine Gregoire.

Jack Briggs

Retired Publisher, Tri-City Herald
Term Expires: Dec. 31, 2010

Jack Briggs began his career as a reporter at the Tri-City Herald in 1960 and worked as a columnist until be became the managing editor in 1985 and publisher in 1992. He retired in 1997. Briggs has won more than 20 Society of Professional Journalist awards for investigative, governmental, feature and environmental writing. He was past president of the Allied Daily Newspapers of Washington, a group of newspaper publishers, and a member of the American Society of Newspaper Editors, the Associated Press Managing Editors, and Investigative Reporters and Editors. He was a founding member of the William O. Douglas Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists and is a past president of the state's Associated Press News Executives. In 1994-96, Briggs was co-chairman of a successful $3.8 million fund-raising effort in the Tri-Cities for Washington State University and in 1995, he was named Tri-Citian of the Year for “service above self.” Since his retirement, he has remained on the Tri-City Herald’s editorial board and is vice chairman of the Hanford Reach board, planning a $40-million interpretive center at the confluence of the Columbia and Yakima rivers in Richland.

Vicky L.Carwein

Chancellor
WSU Tri-Cities (ex-officio)

Tom Cowan

Attorney, Cowan, Moore, Stam & Luke Law Firm
Term Expires: Dec. 31, 2010

Tom Cowan is an attorney at Cowan, Moore, Stam & Luke Law Firm in Richland. He has been in private practice since 1973 and his work consists of business and commercial law, municipal law, water rights, estate planning and probate. Cowan is a member of the Benton-Franklin Bar Association since 1973, serving as both Vice President and President. He also is a member of the Rotary Club of Richland where he was a member of the original committee that initiated the Great Mid-Columbia Duck Race, which has raised over $1.2 million dollars for charity in 18 years. He has had at least one son attending WSU for 17 consecutive years, from 1990 through 2006, and he was honored as the 2006 WSU Dad of the Year. Cowan graduated with a Juris Doctor degree from Gonzaga University Law School and graduated with Distinction with a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science (Pre-law) from Washington State University.

Fran Forgette

Ex-Officio
Chair-elect, WSU Board of Regents

Francois X. Forgette was appointed to the Board of Regents in May of 2005. He is a partner with the Tri-City law firm of Rettig Osborne Forgette, LLP, which he joined in 1977. His full-time practice includes business, real estate, agriculture, insurance defense and health care and related mediation and civil litigation. Regent Forgette also currently serves as the immediate past chairman of the TRIDEC Board of Directors. TRIDEC is the economic development entity for the Greater Tri-City Area in Benton and Franklin Counties. He is a Tri-City Regional Chamber of Commerce Board Member. Regent Forgette has also been actively involved in Tri-City education issues. He was named Tri-Citian of the Year in 2001 for his community service. He received the first Proud to be a Lawyer "Hero Award" from the Washington State Bar Association (WSBA) in 2000 and the WSBA Board of Governors annual Award for Professionalism in 2001. He was named Kennewick Man of the Year for 2001. Regent Forgette graduated from Seattle Preparatory School in 1970 and the University of Washington in 1974 with a B.A. in English Literature. He then attended Gonzaga Law School in Spokane where he graduated with honors in 1977. He and his wife Debbie live in Kennewick and have two sons, Joseph and Patrick.

Rufus M. Friday

Publisher, Tri-City Herald
Term Expires: Dec. 31, 2010

Rufus M. Friday joined the Tri-City Herald in February 2005 as the seventh publisher in its history. He previously served as vice president of circulation at The News & Observer in Raleigh, N.C. Rufus is a 23-year newspaper veteran and a North Carolina State University graduate. He began his newspaper career at the Raleigh News & Observer in 1984. In 1992, he began an 11-year span with the Gannett Company (owners of USAToday) directing circulation for newspapers in Tennessee, Illinois and Alabama. Education has been a centerpiece of Friday’s community involvement. In North Carolina, he served as a member of the Raleigh-based Wake Education Partnership, which is dedicated to improving public schools, and the Triangle Education Advancement Foundation, which raises college scholarship money for public high school student athletes. In the Tri-Cities, he currently serves on the boards of directors for the Tri-City Development Council, United Way, Washington State University Tri-Cities Advisory Council, the advisory board for the Mid-Columbia Reading Foundation, and is on the advisory board for Junior Achievement. He also is a member of the American Press Institute (API) Advisory Council in Reston, Virginia.

George Garlick

President & CEO, George Garlick Enterprises
Term Expires: Dec. 31, 2009

George Garlick is the President and CEO of George Garlick Enterprises. He has lived in the Tri-Cities since 1962, when he accepted a position at Hanford Laboratories. He began teaching 30 local students who were working on their Master’s degree. In 1967 and with the approval of Battelle, he became Director of the Center for Graduate Study, where he raised funds to build the first campus of what is now Washington State University Tri-Cities campus. While in the position Garlick established the first faculty recognition, student graduation recognitions and the first ability for local students to meet the residency requirements at WSU.   Through his work at George Garlick Enterprises he has developed and formed companies related to real estate development primarily in the Tri-Cities Science and Technology Park for which he was one of the founding members in 1990. The 600,000 sq. ft. Stevens Center Business Park provide facility support to assist the local major companies in meeting their objectives on the Hanford Project. This Park also includes a Montessori School, Corporate Fitness Center, lakes and recreational areas. Garlick is also active in many community boards and committees, including the Tri-City Chaplaincy, CREST and TRIDEC, and he was named Tri-Citian of the Year in 2007. He also founded the Gloria Meek Garlick Foundation in honor of his sister-in-law who passed away from cancer. The Foundation will provide medical imaging systems manufactured in the Tri Cities for use by underserved peoples. Garlick earned his Ph. D. degree in Electrical Engineering and Solid State Physics from Iowa State University.

Vicki Gordon

Owner, Gordon Brothers Family Vineyard
Term Expires: Dec. 31, 2009

Vicki Gordon, with her husband and daughter, is co-owner of Kamiak Vineyards and Gordon Brother Cellars, Inc. In addition to her work in the wine industry, she helped found Pay+Benefits, which was the first Professional Employer Organization in Washington State. Vicky has dedicated much of her time to serving the local community and she has severed for eight years on the Board of Directors of Lourdes Health Center, three years on the Tri-City Industrial Development Council and Executive Committee and six years on the Community Economic Revitalization Board appointed by Governor Locke. Gordon currently serves on the Board of Directors for the Three Rivers Community Foundation. She attended Washington State University from 1968-1971 and is Washington State University Foundation trustee.

Michael Kluse

Laboratory Director, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Term Expires: Dec. 31, 2010

Michael Kluse is Laboratory Director of the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, operated by Battelle for the U.S. Department of Energy. Prior to this assignment, which began January 1, 2007, he had responsibility for all of PNNL’s national security business, which includes science and technology for DOE’s National Nuclear Security Administration, DOE’s Office of Intelligence and Counterintelligence, the Department of Homeland Security, the Department of Defense, and the Intelligence Community. From 1996 through 2002, Kluse was the Vice President and General Manager of Battelle’s Navy Sector. Prior to transferring to PNNL in 1997, he served as Vice President of Operations of Battelle’s Defense Systems and Technology Business Group. Kluse joined Battelle in 1976 as a defense and space systems research scientist. Before joining Battelle, he served as an officer in the United States Air Force, where he was assigned to the Freeman Mathematical Laboratory at Eglin Air Force Base. Kluse is a member of the U.S. Army Science Board and currently serves on the National Utility Training and Education Center Board of Directors, and on the Hazardous Materials Management and Emergency Response (HAMMER) Steering Committee in Richland, WA. He holds a B.S. degree in Systems Analysis from Miami University, and a M.S. degree in Industrial and Systems Engineering from The Ohio State University.

Valoria Loveland

Former Director, Department of Agriculture,
State of Washington
Term Expires: Dec. 31, 2010

Loveland Loveland has served as director of the Washington State Department of Agriculture since June 2002. Originally appointed by Gov. Gary Locke, she was reappointed to the position in April 2005 by Gov. Christine Gregoire. As Director, Loveland oversees an agency responsible for animal health, water quality, plant inspections, food safety, fruit and grain inspection and certification, and marketing the state’s agricultural products regionally and internationally. More than 600 people work for WSDA. She also serves on several agricultural advisory boards and committees. Prior to her appointment as WSDA Director, Loveland was the government relations director at Nuvotec, a technology commercialization and consulting company in the Tri-Cities. Loveland has a long career in public service; she was a state senator representing the 16h Legislative District, which includes Franklin, Walla Walla, Columbia, Garfield and Asotin counties, from 1993 to 2001. While in the Senate, Loveland served as chairman of the powerful Ways & Means Committee and vice-chair of the Senate agriculture committee. During her first term in the Senate, she was elected to the leadership position of Senate Democratic Caucus chair. Prior to serving in the Senate, Loveland was the Franklin County Treasurer for 10 years, chaired the state’s Public Disclosure Commission, and was a member of the Nuclear Waste Advisory Council.

Wayne Martin

Scientist, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Term Expires: Dec. 31, 2009

Wayne J. Martin is an environmental scientist at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL). Martin is a graduate of Washington State University with a Ph.D. in Environmental and Natural Resource Sciences, an M.S. in Radiological Sciences with an emphasis in environmental transport from the University of Washington, and a B.S. in Wildlife Management and a minor in Chemistry from Washington State University. His 29-year career at PNNL includes positions as a researcher, principal investigator, and project manager of a variety of projects related to hazardous, toxic, and radioactive wastes. These research projects related to the purpose of understanding contaminant migration within the environment. Martin is currently a technical group manager who oversees 50 scientists and support staff dealing with projects related to applied geology and geochemistry. One of Martin’s most notable qualities is his focus on nurturing and influencing young people in taking on scientific and technological endeavors. He mentors graduate students at PNNL and strongly encourages staff to support student intern involvement in scientific endeavors internally and externally. He has served on the Executive Committee for the Trustee Association for Community and Technical Colleges. He has been a judge in national and local science competitions and has worked at the national level with the organization that sponsors and conducts the Black Engineer of the Year Awards Conference where he is a member of the selection and seminar committees. Martin has also received a performance award for his support to PNNL in assisting with diversity issues.

Ray Robinson

CEO and President, RKRI
Term Expires: Dec. 31, 2009

Dr. Ray K. Robinson has been the CEO and President of RKRI, a management and technology consulting company, for over 20 years. He has over four decades of hands-on experience stimulating, identifying, incubating, and integrating ideas and resources into successful and sustainable projects and ventures. He was one of Battelle Northwest's entrepreneurial senior scientists and managers charged with finding, funding and implementing innovative ideas and customers outside of Battelle Northwest's principal U.S. Department of Energy customer base. He was a senior executive and director in Exxon's "start with a clean sheet of paper" creation of a diversified nuclear fuel cycle company and was a senior executive in charge of three of those startups with major operations that spanned three states and two countries. He also managed one of Exxon's oldest mainstream manufacturing companies. After Exxon sold the nuclear and manufacturing companies, Robinson founded or co-founded four for-profit companies and two national non-profit corporations. He collaborated with community leaders to help conceive, start and/or grow highly successful incubators, a science and technology park, a land grant state university branch campus, a Southeastern Washington "commercialization partnership" and two federal agency centers of excellence (HAMMER and the National Counterdrug Center). He serves in a leadership capacity on four boards of directors (two as chairman), and is active in three new start-ups. He has a Doctorate in Materials Science and Engineering from MIT, a Master's of Business Administration from University of Washington and a Bachelor's degree in Chemical Engineering from University of Texas.

Rand Wortman

President and CEO, Kadlec Medical Center
Term Expires: Dec. 31, 2009

Rand Wortman became the President and CEO of Kadlec Medical Center in November 2000. He is a leader dedicated to patient safety and patient centered care and is committed to providing the highest quality care to the patients in the Tri-Cities and surrounding region. In his time at Kadlec, Wortman has established the hospitalist, pediatric hospitalist and intensivist programs and a physician portal which allows Kadlec physicians to access patient information, including radiology images and reports, from their offices. Kadlec also became the first accredited Chest Pain Center in the Northwest and the first Chest Pain Center to receive Level 2 accreditation and is the only hospital in Eastern Washington affiliated with the prestigious Planetree Organization.
Participation in various quality care programs including the 100,000 Lives Campaign, Leapfrog Group and JCAHO Core Measures. He also instigated construction of the Outpatient Imaging Center, a state of the art emergency room, and a critical care unit. Rand received his BS in Business Economics from Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio and obtained his Masters in Hospital and Health Administration from University of Iowa in 1975.

Cindy Zehnder

Chief of Staff, Governor’s Office
Term Expires: Dec. 31, 2010

Cindy Zehnder is Governor Gregoire’s Chief of Staff. Previously she was the President of TVW, Washington’s public affairs network. She has also served as Chief Clerk of the Washington State House of Representatives, and Deputy Commissioner of the Washington State Employment Security Department. Prior to coming to state government, she spent many years as an official for the Teamsters Union starting as a truck driver and dockworker. She held several different positions in the union including International Representative and the chief executive officer for the Freight, Car Haul and Tanker Drivers Local in King County. She recently completed a term as a member of the University of Washington Board of Regents and has served on a number of other public boards and commissions, including the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and the University of Washington Tacoma Advisory Committee. Currently, she is a member of the, the University of Washington Evans School of Public Affairs Visiting Committee, Washington State University Tri-Cities Advisory Committee, the Executive Committee of the National Association of Public Affairs Networks, the National Conference of State Legislatures Foundation Board, the Trust for Representative Democracy and the Washington News Council. She has a Master’s Degree in Educational Psychology from the University of Washington.

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	Mike Schwenk Chair Vice President and Director, Pacific Northwest National Laboratories Term Expires: Dec. 31, 2010 Mike Schwenk is Vice President and Director of Commercial Partnerships at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), a U.S. Department of Energy multiprogram national laboratory operated by Battelle. Schwenk’s responsibilities include industrial contract research, technology commercialization, and partnerships associated with economic development. Additionally, Schwenk coordinates PNNL’s commercial business among four other national laboratories managed or co-managed by Battelle, as well as the corporate center in Columbus, Ohio. Schwenk has thirty years of technical and business management experience in government, entrepreneurial, non-profit and corporate settings, ranging in scale from his own two-person business to a 300-person corporate operation. He has participated in dozens of business transactions, including government privatization, business startups, technology licensing, and corporate relocations/expansions. Schwenk is very involved in projects to improve the business climate and quality of life in his community and throughout the Pacific Northwest. He has a Master’s Degree in Management and a Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering.
	Brad Fisher Vice Chair Senior Vice President & Branch Director, RBC Wealth Management Term Expires: Dec. 31, 2010 Brad Fisher has served as the branch director and financial consultant for RBC Wealth Management since July 2006. Prior to this position, he was a financial advisor and branch office manager at Piper Jaffray the previous 20 years. A native of the Tri-Cities, Fisher has been actively involved in community service in the area and was a former Mayor and councilmember of the City of Kennewick. He was the president of the Tri-Cities Cancer Center Foundation, a board member of the Columbia Basin College Foundation, co-chairman of the Tri-Cities Goodwill Games Organizing Committee and a member of Richland Rotary. In 1998, Senator Slade Gordon invited him to be on his Washington State Advisory Committee. Fisher attended the University of Washington and earned his bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from Washington State University in 1979. He presently serves as a member of the WSU Foundation Board of Trustees and is a board member of the Mid-Columbia Reading Foundation. He and his wife Jennifer have four children and reside in Richland.
	Carl Adrian CEO TRIDEC Term Expires: Dec. 31, 2010 Carl Adrian has been the CEO and President the Tri-City Industrial Development Council (TRIDEC) since September 2003. TRIDEC is the lead economic development organization in for Benton and Franklin Counties. It offers businesses interested in expanding to the Tri-Cities area the most comprehensive and business-specific assistance available in the region. Adrian comes to TRIDEC from the Waterloo/Cedar Falls area of Iowa, where he served as President of the Cedar Valley Economic Development Corporation since 1994. Prior to accepting the position with Cedar Valley EDC, Adrian served as the President of the Casper Area Economic Development Alliance, Inc. based in Casper, Wyoming and before that was Vice President of the Quad-City Development Group in the Quad-City area of Iowa and Illinois. Adrian is a native of Omaha, Nebraska. He has a Master’s Degree in Urban and Economic Geography and a Bachelor’s Degree in Political Science and Geography from the University of Iowa.
	Frank Armijo Program Director & General Manager, Lockheed Martin Term Expires: Dec. 31, 2009 J. Frank Armijo is Program Director and General Manager for Lockheed Martin Information Systems and Global Services. He is responsible for the several government and commercial programs managed out of the Richland, Wash., business unit including the Hanford program. Armijo has more than 20 years of business experience and has received several industry and corporate awards, including the 2005 NOVA Award, which is the highest honor given to a Lockheed Martin employee. He served two terms on the Washington Technology Center Board and the Washington Software Alliance. He also served as chairman of TRIDEC, the regional economic development organization, and currently is TRIDEC’s vice chairman of Higher Education. Armijo was appointed to Washington Learns for the State of Washington chaired by Governor Christine Gregoire.
	Jack Briggs Retired Publisher, Tri-City Herald Term Expires: Dec. 31, 2010 Jack Briggs began his career as a reporter at the Tri-City Herald in 1960 and worked as a columnist until be became the managing editor in 1985 and publisher in 1992. He retired in 1997. Briggs has won more than 20 Society of Professional Journalist awards for investigative, governmental, feature and environmental writing. He was past president of the Allied Daily Newspapers of Washington, a group of newspaper publishers, and a member of the American Society of Newspaper Editors, the Associated Press Managing Editors, and Investigative Reporters and Editors. He was a founding member of the William O. Douglas Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists and is a past president of the state's Associated Press News Executives. In 1994-96, Briggs was co-chairman of a successful $3.8 million fund-raising effort in the Tri-Cities for Washington State University and in 1995, he was named Tri-Citian of the Year for “service above self.” Since his retirement, he has remained on the Tri-City Herald’s editorial board and is vice chairman of the Hanford Reach board, planning a $40-million interpretive center at the confluence of the Columbia and Yakima rivers in Richland.
	Vicky L.Carwein Chancellor WSU Tri-Cities (ex-officio)
	Tom Cowan Attorney, Cowan, Moore, Stam & Luke Law Firm Term Expires: Dec. 31, 2010 Tom Cowan is an attorney at Cowan, Moore, Stam & Luke Law Firm in Richland. He has been in private practice since 1973 and his work consists of business and commercial law, municipal law, water rights, estate planning and probate. Cowan is a member of the Benton-Franklin Bar Association since 1973, serving as both Vice President and President. He also is a member of the Rotary Club of Richland where he was a member of the original committee that initiated the Great Mid-Columbia Duck Race, which has raised over $1.2 million dollars for charity in 18 years. He has had at least one son attending WSU for 17 consecutive years, from 1990 through 2006, and he was honored as the 2006 WSU Dad of the Year. Cowan graduated with a Juris Doctor degree from Gonzaga University Law School and graduated with Distinction with a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science (Pre-law) from Washington State University.
	Fran Forgette Ex-Officio Chair-elect, WSU Board of Regents Francois X. Forgette was appointed to the Board of Regents in May of 2005. He is a partner with the Tri-City law firm of Rettig Osborne Forgette, LLP, which he joined in 1977. His full-time practice includes business, real estate, agriculture, insurance defense and health care and related mediation and civil litigation. Regent Forgette also currently serves as the immediate past chairman of the TRIDEC Board of Directors. TRIDEC is the economic development entity for the Greater Tri-City Area in Benton and Franklin Counties. He is a Tri-City Regional Chamber of Commerce Board Member. Regent Forgette has also been actively involved in Tri-City education issues. He was named Tri-Citian of the Year in 2001 for his community service. He received the first Proud to be a Lawyer "Hero Award" from the Washington State Bar Association (WSBA) in 2000 and the WSBA Board of Governors annual Award for Professionalism in 2001. He was named Kennewick Man of the Year for 2001. Regent Forgette graduated from Seattle Preparatory School in 1970 and the University of Washington in 1974 with a B.A. in English Literature. He then attended Gonzaga Law School in Spokane where he graduated with honors in 1977. He and his wife Debbie live in Kennewick and have two sons, Joseph and Patrick.
	Rufus M. Friday Publisher, Tri-City Herald Term Expires: Dec. 31, 2010 Rufus M. Friday joined the Tri-City Herald in February 2005 as the seventh publisher in its history. He previously served as vice president of circulation at The News & Observer in Raleigh, N.C. Rufus is a 23-year newspaper veteran and a North Carolina State University graduate. He began his newspaper career at the Raleigh News & Observer in 1984. In 1992, he began an 11-year span with the Gannett Company (owners of USAToday) directing circulation for newspapers in Tennessee, Illinois and Alabama. Education has been a centerpiece of Friday’s community involvement. In North Carolina, he served as a member of the Raleigh-based Wake Education Partnership, which is dedicated to improving public schools, and the Triangle Education Advancement Foundation, which raises college scholarship money for public high school student athletes. In the Tri-Cities, he currently serves on the boards of directors for the Tri-City Development Council, United Way, Washington State University Tri-Cities Advisory Council, the advisory board for the Mid-Columbia Reading Foundation, and is on the advisory board for Junior Achievement. He also is a member of the American Press Institute (API) Advisory Council in Reston, Virginia.
	George Garlick President & CEO, George Garlick Enterprises Term Expires: Dec. 31, 2009 George Garlick is the President and CEO of George Garlick Enterprises. He has lived in the Tri-Cities since 1962, when he accepted a position at Hanford Laboratories. He began teaching 30 local students who were working on their Master’s degree. In 1967 and with the approval of Battelle, he became Director of the Center for Graduate Study, where he raised funds to build the first campus of what is now Washington State University Tri-Cities campus. While in the position Garlick established the first faculty recognition, student graduation recognitions and the first ability for local students to meet the residency requirements at WSU. Through his work at George Garlick Enterprises he has developed and formed companies related to real estate development primarily in the Tri-Cities Science and Technology Park for which he was one of the founding members in 1990. The 600,000 sq. ft. Stevens Center Business Park provide facility support to assist the local major companies in meeting their objectives on the Hanford Project. This Park also includes a Montessori School, Corporate Fitness Center, lakes and recreational areas. Garlick is also active in many community boards and committees, including the Tri-City Chaplaincy, CREST and TRIDEC, and he was named Tri-Citian of the Year in 2007. He also founded the Gloria Meek Garlick Foundation in honor of his sister-in-law who passed away from cancer. The Foundation will provide medical imaging systems manufactured in the Tri Cities for use by underserved peoples. Garlick earned his Ph. D. degree in Electrical Engineering and Solid State Physics from Iowa State University.
	Vicki Gordon Owner, Gordon Brothers Family Vineyard Term Expires: Dec. 31, 2009 Vicki Gordon, with her husband and daughter, is co-owner of Kamiak Vineyards and Gordon Brother Cellars, Inc. In addition to her work in the wine industry, she helped found Pay+Benefits, which was the first Professional Employer Organization in Washington State. Vicky has dedicated much of her time to serving the local community and she has severed for eight years on the Board of Directors of Lourdes Health Center, three years on the Tri-City Industrial Development Council and Executive Committee and six years on the Community Economic Revitalization Board appointed by Governor Locke. Gordon currently serves on the Board of Directors for the Three Rivers Community Foundation. She attended Washington State University from 1968-1971 and is Washington State University Foundation trustee.
	Michael Kluse Laboratory Director, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Term Expires: Dec. 31, 2010 Michael Kluse is Laboratory Director of the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, operated by Battelle for the U.S. Department of Energy. Prior to this assignment, which began January 1, 2007, he had responsibility for all of PNNL’s national security business, which includes science and technology for DOE’s National Nuclear Security Administration, DOE’s Office of Intelligence and Counterintelligence, the Department of Homeland Security, the Department of Defense, and the Intelligence Community. From 1996 through 2002, Kluse was the Vice President and General Manager of Battelle’s Navy Sector. Prior to transferring to PNNL in 1997, he served as Vice President of Operations of Battelle’s Defense Systems and Technology Business Group. Kluse joined Battelle in 1976 as a defense and space systems research scientist. Before joining Battelle, he served as an officer in the United States Air Force, where he was assigned to the Freeman Mathematical Laboratory at Eglin Air Force Base. Kluse is a member of the U.S. Army Science Board and currently serves on the National Utility Training and Education Center Board of Directors, and on the Hazardous Materials Management and Emergency Response (HAMMER) Steering Committee in Richland, WA. He holds a B.S. degree in Systems Analysis from Miami University, and a M.S. degree in Industrial and Systems Engineering from The Ohio State University.
	Valoria Loveland Former Director, Department of Agriculture, State of Washington Term Expires: Dec. 31, 2010 Loveland Loveland has served as director of the Washington State Department of Agriculture since June 2002. Originally appointed by Gov. Gary Locke, she was reappointed to the position in April 2005 by Gov. Christine Gregoire. As Director, Loveland oversees an agency responsible for animal health, water quality, plant inspections, food safety, fruit and grain inspection and certification, and marketing the state’s agricultural products regionally and internationally. More than 600 people work for WSDA. She also serves on several agricultural advisory boards and committees. Prior to her appointment as WSDA Director, Loveland was the government relations director at Nuvotec, a technology commercialization and consulting company in the Tri-Cities. Loveland has a long career in public service; she was a state senator representing the 16h Legislative District, which includes Franklin, Walla Walla, Columbia, Garfield and Asotin counties, from 1993 to 2001. While in the Senate, Loveland served as chairman of the powerful Ways & Means Committee and vice-chair of the Senate agriculture committee. During her first term in the Senate, she was elected to the leadership position of Senate Democratic Caucus chair. Prior to serving in the Senate, Loveland was the Franklin County Treasurer for 10 years, chaired the state’s Public Disclosure Commission, and was a member of the Nuclear Waste Advisory Council.
	Wayne Martin Scientist, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Term Expires: Dec. 31, 2009 Wayne J. Martin is an environmental scientist at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL). Martin is a graduate of Washington State University with a Ph.D. in Environmental and Natural Resource Sciences, an M.S. in Radiological Sciences with an emphasis in environmental transport from the University of Washington, and a B.S. in Wildlife Management and a minor in Chemistry from Washington State University. His 29-year career at PNNL includes positions as a researcher, principal investigator, and project manager of a variety of projects related to hazardous, toxic, and radioactive wastes. These research projects related to the purpose of understanding contaminant migration within the environment. Martin is currently a technical group manager who oversees 50 scientists and support staff dealing with projects related to applied geology and geochemistry. One of Martin’s most notable qualities is his focus on nurturing and influencing young people in taking on scientific and technological endeavors. He mentors graduate students at PNNL and strongly encourages staff to support student intern involvement in scientific endeavors internally and externally. He has served on the Executive Committee for the Trustee Association for Community and Technical Colleges. He has been a judge in national and local science competitions and has worked at the national level with the organization that sponsors and conducts the Black Engineer of the Year Awards Conference where he is a member of the selection and seminar committees. Martin has also received a performance award for his support to PNNL in assisting with diversity issues.
	Ray Robinson CEO and President, RKRI Term Expires: Dec. 31, 2009 Dr. Ray K. Robinson has been the CEO and President of RKRI, a management and technology consulting company, for over 20 years. He has over four decades of hands-on experience stimulating, identifying, incubating, and integrating ideas and resources into successful and sustainable projects and ventures. He was one of Battelle Northwest's entrepreneurial senior scientists and managers charged with finding, funding and implementing innovative ideas and customers outside of Battelle Northwest's principal U.S. Department of Energy customer base. He was a senior executive and director in Exxon's "start with a clean sheet of paper" creation of a diversified nuclear fuel cycle company and was a senior executive in charge of three of those startups with major operations that spanned three states and two countries. He also managed one of Exxon's oldest mainstream manufacturing companies. After Exxon sold the nuclear and manufacturing companies, Robinson founded or co-founded four for-profit companies and two national non-profit corporations. He collaborated with community leaders to help conceive, start and/or grow highly successful incubators, a science and technology park, a land grant state university branch campus, a Southeastern Washington "commercialization partnership" and two federal agency centers of excellence (HAMMER and the National Counterdrug Center). He serves in a leadership capacity on four boards of directors (two as chairman), and is active in three new start-ups. He has a Doctorate in Materials Science and Engineering from MIT, a Master's of Business Administration from University of Washington and a Bachelor's degree in Chemical Engineering from University of Texas.
	Rand Wortman President and CEO, Kadlec Medical Center Term Expires: Dec. 31, 2009 Rand Wortman became the President and CEO of Kadlec Medical Center in November 2000. He is a leader dedicated to patient safety and patient centered care and is committed to providing the highest quality care to the patients in the Tri-Cities and surrounding region. In his time at Kadlec, Wortman has established the hospitalist, pediatric hospitalist and intensivist programs and a physician portal which allows Kadlec physicians to access patient information, including radiology images and reports, from their offices. Kadlec also became the first accredited Chest Pain Center in the Northwest and the first Chest Pain Center to receive Level 2 accreditation and is the only hospital in Eastern Washington affiliated with the prestigious Planetree Organization. Participation in various quality care programs including the 100,000 Lives Campaign, Leapfrog Group and JCAHO Core Measures. He also instigated construction of the Outpatient Imaging Center, a state of the art emergency room, and a critical care unit. Rand received his BS in Business Economics from Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio and obtained his Masters in Hospital and Health Administration from University of Iowa in 1975.
	Cindy Zehnder Chief of Staff, Governor’s Office Term Expires: Dec. 31, 2010 Cindy Zehnder is Governor Gregoire’s Chief of Staff. Previously she was the President of TVW, Washington’s public affairs network. She has also served as Chief Clerk of the Washington State House of Representatives, and Deputy Commissioner of the Washington State Employment Security Department. Prior to coming to state government, she spent many years as an official for the Teamsters Union starting as a truck driver and dockworker. She held several different positions in the union including International Representative and the chief executive officer for the Freight, Car Haul and Tanker Drivers Local in King County. She recently completed a term as a member of the University of Washington Board of Regents and has served on a number of other public boards and commissions, including the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and the University of Washington Tacoma Advisory Committee. Currently, she is a member of the, the University of Washington Evans School of Public Affairs Visiting Committee, Washington State University Tri-Cities Advisory Committee, the Executive Committee of the National Association of Public Affairs Networks, the National Conference of State Legislatures Foundation Board, the Trust for Representative Democracy and the Washington News Council. She has a Master’s Degree in Educational Psychology from the University of Washington.