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Leadership Team | Board Of Trustees

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Board of Trustees
Seattle Community College District VI
1500 Harvard Ave.
Seattle, WA 98122-2400
(206) 587-3872

The Seattle Community College District is governed by a five-member Board of Trustees who serve sequential five-year terms. Trustees are appointed by the Washington State Governor and confirmed by the State Senate.

Board meetings are monthly, and rotate among the Seattle Community Colleges' campuses and centers. The board has approved the annual schedule.

In addition to their duties on the Seattle Community College District Board, Trustees also serve on committees for trustee organizations such as the state-wide Washington Association of Community and Technical College Trustees and the national American Association of College Trustees.

NOBIE CHAN
Vice Chair
Term: October 2004 - September 2009

Seattle business executive and business educator Nobie Chan was founding director, president and chairman of the board of Sound Savings & Loan – A Woman’s Place, which later merged with Washington Mutual Savings Bank. Prior to her banking career, she served as Seattle Civil Service Commissioner and Chair.

Trustee Chan’s academic experience includes teaching and administration in the Seattle Community Colleges, and service as Dean for the Edmonds Community College campus in Kobe, Japan. She earned a bachelor’s degree in business education and a master’s in education from the University of Washington.

In the business and civic communities, Trustee Chan served as a founder and on the board of Columbia Tower Club, and on the boards of the King County Council of Campfire Girls, Washington Dental Foundation, Seattle Chamber of Commerce Leadership for Tomorrow, James Washington Foundation, and the Seattle Chinese Garden Society. She has also served with United Way Advocates, as a PTA president and as an officer of the Japanese American Citizens’ League.

She was recognized for her accomplishments by Lear’s magazine and received a Matrix Table Award from Women in Communications.

 

DR. CONSTANCE W. RICE
Term: September 2008 - October 2013

Dr. Constance W. Rice is recognized as a civic, social and business figure both in the Puget Sound region and internationally. She is Managing Director for Knowledge Management for Casey Family Programs, providing information for strategic consultants working for the foster-care organization in 40 states and jurisdictions.

Trustee Rice is a former vice chancellor and senior vice chancellor of the Seattle Community Colleges, where she also served as interim president of North from 1995-97. She is currently a visiting scholar/scientist at the University of Washington’s Center for Workforce Development. She holds a graduate degree from the UW School of Public Affairs and a doctorate from the UW School of Education.

Trustee Rice has served on the boards of Swedish Hospital, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle Downtown Rotary, Institute for Public Service and the Seattle Foundation. In 1990, she founded the Seattle Health and Nutrition Project, to offer nutrition education and meals to low-income families in public elementary schools. Rice and her husband, former Seattle Mayor Norm Rice, were 2005 campaign chairs of King County United Way, which successfully achieved its $100 million goal.

As founder and past president of Strategic Education Centers, Rice and her advisory board established two centers in Swaziland dedicated to providing a livelihood to adolescents and abating the spread of HIV/AIDS. She also served as the national founding Executive Director of the Desmond Tutu Peace Foundation, now based in New York City.

Rice has been honored by numerous civic and humanitarian organizations, including recognition from the Seattle-King County Board of Realtors as First Citizen of the Year for 1993 and from the Puget Sound Business Journal as one of the 25 most influential women in the Puget Sound area.

 

THOMAS W. MALONE
Chair
Term: October 2002 - September 2012

Seattle attorney Thomas W. Malone, a partner in the Seattle firm Malone Galvin Spicer, P.S., is a member of the American, Washington State and King County Bar Associations. He is admitted to the U.S. Supreme Court, the U.S. Court of Appeals (9th Circuit), U.S. Tax Court, and the U.S. Court of Claims.

Trustee Malone’s wide-ranging civic and community service includes leadership with the Seattle Ethics and Elections and Fair Campaign Practices Commissions, Ballard Chamber of Commerce and Seattle Marine Business Coalition. He is a trustee and former board chair of Swedish Medical Center, and on the board of the Swedish Medical Center Foundation. He was previously a trustee and chair of Ballard Community Hospital and of the Foundation of North Seattle Community College.

Trustee Malone earned undergraduate and law degrees from the University of Washington, and a master’s degree in business administration from Golden Gate University. He has been honored as Man of the Year by the Ballard Kiwanis, Business Person of the Year by the Ballard Chamber of Commerce, and as Outstanding Citizen Volunteer of the Year by the Seattle Community Colleges.

 

DONALD ROOT
Term: October 2005 - September 2010

Donald Root is Chairman and CEO of GM Nameplate, an international business based in Seattle, and a civic leader.

Trustee Root serves on the boards of the Seattle Chamber of Commerce, Seattle Seafair, Ferguson Construction and the Swedish/Ballard Hospital Foundation. He is also past president of his international industry trade association, a member of Seattle Rotary, and past president of Northwest Little League Baseball. He has directed a number of fund-raising drives for charitable and educational organizations, and has been a significant supporter of United Way, the University of Washington, Swedish Hospital, the YMCA, and the Seattle Community Colleges.

Trustee Root is from one of Washington’s earliest pioneering families: his great-grandmother was one of the “Mercer Girls” who came to Seattle during the logging days of the 1860s. He attended Western Washington University and the University of Washington, where he earned a business degree with majors in finance and marketing.

 

DR. RAJIV SHAH
Term: October 2006 - September 2011

Rajiv J. Shah, M.D., is a Director at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation who is inspired by the community college mission of access for students and commitment to their success.

Shah manages the Gates Foundation’s program areas in Agricultural Development and Financial Services for the Poor. He previously served as Director of Strategic Opportunities and as Senior Economist, helping to develop the foundation’s global health strategy and manage the Vaccine Fund.

Prior to joining the Gates Foundation, Shah co-founded the consulting firm Health Systems Analytics, worked at the World Health Organization, and was a policy aide in the British Parliament. He also worked as a health-care policy advisor on the Gore 2000 presidential campaign.

He earned his medical degree from the University of Pennsylvania Medical School and an M.Sc. in Health Economics at the Wharton School of Business. He is a graduate of the University of Michigan and the London School of Economics and has published articles on health policy and global development.