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Board MembersInterim Chair Marty Brown
Representing Labor Rick Bender
Rick currently serves on the Washington State Economic Development Commission, on the Board of Directors for the Washington State Trade & Convention Center, and the Washington Council on International Trade (Ex Officio). He also serves on the Honorary Leadership Council for the Downtown Emergency Service Center, and the Governor’s Commission on Competitiveness. He is a member of the Northwest Migrant Housing Fund Advisory Board and the Trade Development Alliance of Greater Seattle. In 2004, he also was appointed to the Board of Directors for the Evergreen Safety Council Janet Lewis
Janet is a labor delegate to the Seattle/King County Building and Construction Trades Council as well as the King County Labor Council. In addition to being a member of the Washington State Bar Association, she is an executive board member of the Apprenticeship and Nontraditional Education for Women (ANEWS), a non-profit organization that prepares low-income women and men to enter nontraditional employment.
In addition to her union commitments, Beth is a is member of the Spokane Area Workforce Development Council, Washington Learns Higher Education Advisory, and the Spokane Area Professional-Technical Advisory Consortium (SAP-TAC). She also serves on the Board of Directors for Spokane County United Way.
Representing Business Creigh H. Agnew Currently, Ms. Agnew is a director at Sterling Savings Bank; serves on the advisory board of the University of Washington-Tacoma; is a member of the executive committee and board of directors of the Association of Washington Business, the state's chamber of commerce; and serves on the board of directors of the Multi-Service Center of South King County. Ms. Agnew is a past chair of the Association of Washington Business, the Washington Council on International Trade and the Weyerhaeuser Company United Way Campaign. Mike Hudson
Representing State Agencies
For seven years he served in the state House of Representatives and was a key sponsor of the Education Reform Bill. As a state representative, Dorn chaired the K-12 House Education Committee and was a member of the Appropriations Committee. His honors include the President’s Award from the Association of Washington State School Principals and the Golden Gavel from the Washington Association of School Administrators. In 1999, Dorn became executive director of Public School Employees of Washington, the second largest educational employee’s organization in Washington state. Dorn and his wife, Kaye, live in Eatonville and have three grown sons. The commitment to education runs deep in Randy’s family: one son is a teacher and one is training to become one.
A graduate of both the University of Washington (BA in Finance) and Washington State University (MA in Political Science), he was president of Everett Community College from 1999 to early 2006 before taking up his current position. Prior to that, he was the general manager of Snohomish County PUD, chief administrative officer of Thurston County, and Deputy King County Executive. Recent community and professional affiliations include president of the the Washington Association of Community and Technical Colleges, member of the Snohomish County Economic Development Council, the World Affairs Council, Workforce Development Council, and the Alliance for Corporate Education. He also is actively involved with the Cascade Land Conservancy and a board member and chair of Community and Technical Colleges Center for Information Services.
Karen graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point and served five years in Germany as a second lieutenant. Returning to the Pacific Northwest to attend the University of Washington School of Law, she got involved in student politics, serving as a lobbyist for the Graduate and Professional Student Senate, working closely with the university and student body presidents. She secured health benefits for teaching assistants and resident advisers, and was also involved in the Faculty Senate, the President's budget committee, and Chimera, a forum in which graduate students were afforded opportunities to display research results. Karen is past president of the 52,000-member University of Washington Alumni Association. In 1994, Karen obtained her law degree and went to work with Preston, Gates & Ellis. Three years later, she joined Puget Sound Energy where she most recently served as their Director of Gas Operations and oversaw emergency response, customer field service, and system maintenance operations.
Rogers attended Duke University where he graduated magna cum laude with a degree in computer science. After college he worked for the management consulting firm, Bain and Company in Boston, focusing on strategy and planning for companies in the pharmaceutical, manufacturing and high tech industries. Rogers received his MBA in Marketing from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. He came to Seattle in 1990 to work at Microsoft and managed teams in the Windows, Mobile Devices, On-line Content and Consumer Software Divisions over his 15 years with the company. He was promoted to Vice President in 2001. Rogers has been a board member and volunteer for regional organizations focused on climate change and social services. He lives in Seattle with his wife and three sons. Tony Lee
Participating Officials
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ed: 2009, Serves at the pleasure of the Governor
Rick Bender was elected President of the Washington State Labor Council, AFL-CIO, in March 1993. He has served as a WSLC Vice President and was Executive Secretary of the King County Labor Council, Executive Secretary of the Seattle Building and Construction Trades Council, and a State Legislator serving ten years in the House and eight years in the Senate. During his time in the State House of Representatives, he served as Assistant Majority Whip and Assistant Minority Floor Leader. In the State Senate, he served as Majority Whip and Chair of the Senate Transportation Committee.
Janet Lewis has been an apprentice, owned and operated her own electrical construction business, and studied for and been admitted to the Bar. Prior to joining the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers in 2000 as its Local 46 business representative, she worked with the Department of Labor & Industry for several years both as a legislative policy analyst and program manager. 
Beth Thew is the Secretary-Treasurer of the Spokane Regional Labor Council and a Vice President for the Washington State Labor Council. She also serves as Chair of the WSLC Economic Development and Transportation Committee and sits on the Spokane Worker Retraining Advisory Committee.
Creigh H. Agnew recently retired after a 21-year career with the Weyerhaeuser Company where she served as Vice President of Government Affairs and Corporate Contributions. She was responsible for issue management and government relations at the federal, state and local Puget Sound levels. She also served as sponsor of the Office of Corporate Contributions, the company's philanthropic organization. Over her career, she worked for the company in Washington, DC, Olympia and at corporate headquarters. Before joining Weyerhaeuser Company, Creigh was a legislative assistant, managing natural resource policy work, for Senator Slade Gorton and Congressman Norm Dicks in Washington, DC. 
Mike Hudson is the Executive Director of the Institute Workforce Development and Economic Sustainability, a non-profit affiliate of the Association of Washington Business. Mike is a former president and chief executive officer of North Coast Credit Union in Bellingham. He also has managed or worked closely with a variety of nonprofit organizations during the last 20 years including the Washington/Alaska Arthritis Foundation, Whatcom County United Way, and the YMCA of Southwest Washington. He is also a past board member of the Bellingham/Whatcom County Chamber of Commerce.
Lutz Ziob is General Manager of Microsoft Learning, a world-class skills development organization reaching millions of Microsoft customers worldwide with innovative learning products that help individuals and organizations maximize the use of Microsoft technologies.Ziob oversees the development, distribution, and worldwide marketing of a comprehensive line of products that include Microsoft certifications and training, Microsoft Press books eLearning, and innovative skills development programs. While at Microsoft Ziob has grown his organization into Microsoft’s Center of Excellence for Learning, which trains and certifies customers and partners on Microsoft technologies from beta phase throughout the life of the products.
A lifelong resident of Washington state, Randy Dorn is an experienced educator and dedicated public servant committed to creating world-class schools for all of our children. Dorn has spent much of his career in education. He received a bachelor’s degree in education from the University of Idaho and a master’s degree in education from Pacific Lutheran University. He taught at elementary and middle schools and served as elementary and a high school principal. 
Charlie Earl is the Executive Director of the State Board for Community and Technical Colleges. 
Rogers Weed is Director of the Department of Commerce, working to fulfill the governor’s mission to retain jobs and companies located in Washington state today, while attracting new ones. His focus is on forging effective partnerships with the business community, other agencies in the public sector and the Legislature.
Tony Lee is the Advocacy Director for Solid Ground and Policy Director at the Statewide Poverty Action Network (SPAN). His work focuses on low-income issues such as welfare reform, Medicaid, job training, refugee and immigrant rights, predatory lending and low-income housing. Tony has served as Legislative Director of the Washington Association of Churches (WAC) where he coordinated the public policy work for the WAC representing the Protestant and Catholic denominations in our state. Much of his work has focused on human rights issues (e.g., death penalty, discrimination) and low-income issues (welfare, Medicaid, low-income housing). His work takes him to Olympia where he lobbies full-time during the state legislative session. 
Susan Dreyfus is Secretary of the state's Department of Social and Health Services.
A Wisconsin resident for the past 33 years, Dreyfus was executive vice president for strategy with Rogers Behavioral Health System, Inc., in the Milwaukee area. Prior to joining Rogers in 2007, Dreyfus served for five years as senior vice president and chief operating officer of the National Alliance for Children and Families and Families International. With the Alliance, Dreyfus consulted with nonprofit human service agencies across the country on a range of governance, organizational and program areas, including child welfare practice, system design and management, contracting, policy, and state and federal financing. 
Mark Mattke is the Workforce Strategy and Planning Director of the Spokane Area Workforce Development Council (SAWDC). He is responsible for the design and performance of the regional talent development system, working with a broad community partnership to ensure that the dynamic workforce needs of business are met and individuals have the skills to succeed in the 21st century economy. His background includes experience in the private and public sectors, having worked in business management, post secondary education, and workforce development in Washington and Idaho.