Trudy C. Rolla
Don Ellis
Margaret Wiggins
D. Bruce Gardiner
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Don Ellis Don Ellis


Besides a lifetime of public service and experience in the financial services industry, Don has always been interested in public sector risk management. He worked to form the Washington Water and Sewer Risk Management Pool and chaired its first Executive Board. He was re-elected to Board years later when that organization faced a financial crisis. Don has the longest tenure on the Northshore Utility District Board of Commissioners. He has represented the District in various inter-agency source development projects.

EXPERIENCE:
  • Chair (mayor-appointed) Seattle Water Department Purveyor Rate Committee
  • Chair of the Water and Sewer Risk Management Pool formation group
  • Chair of the Executive Board -- Water and Sewer Risk Management Pool
  • Chair (current) of the Executive Committee of the Snohomish River -- Regional Water Authority
  • Current Chair and Commissioner Northshore Utility District for 31 consecutive years
  • Served (often as Chair) on numerous Seattle Purveyor Committees
  • Served as voting member on Seattle Water Rate Committees
  • Voting member North Fork Snoqualmie Dam project
  • Voting member Seattle Purveyors Contract Committee
  • Search Committee member (mayor-appointed) for Seattle Water Department Superintendent
  • Board of Directors of the Washington Government Entity Pool since 1998
  • Commissioners of King County Fire District No. 16 since 1987
  • Thirty-five years of experience in the financial services industry
  • A Certified Fraud Examiner

EDUCATION:
  • B. S. ­ University of Washington
  • Post-graduate work at University of Washington and McGill University
  • Certificates from various risk-management courses by the American Institute of Insurance including courses on risk management and property and liability insurance
  • Certificate program in "Harassment Investigation"