Distinguished Alumni
Started in 1990, the Highline Community College Distinguished Alumni Award honors individuals who
attended Highline and who are making outstanding contributions in
their chosen fields of endeavor. (Nominate an alum.)
Recipients are:
- 2010 ~ Deborah King,
President & Founder Final touch Finishing School, Inc.
- 2009 ~ Dr. Linda Petter, family
practitioner
- 2008 ~ Sam
Green, Washington State’s first Poet Laureate
- 2007 ~ Chris Carrel, executive director of the Friends of the Hylebos
- 2006 ~ Ezra Teshome of State Farm Insurance
- 2005 ~ Larry Blackstock, a local television industry veteran
- 2005 ~ Maurice Sabado, a science and technology pioneer
- 2004 ~ Tricia L. Crozier, chief administrative
officer for the King County District Court
- 2003 ~ Junki Yoshida, CEO of the
Yoshida Group
- 2002 ~ T.M. Sell, professor of
journalism and political science at Highline Community College
- 2001 ~ Dr. William "Perry" Baker, associate professor and
biomedical sciences program coordinator at Midwestern University
in Glendale, Arizona
- 2000 ~ Terry Acena, Seattle Public
School District principal
- 1999 ~ Thomas Nixon, retired senior vice president of
KeyBank
- 1998 ~ Ann Rule, internationally recognized author
- 1997 ~ Veltry Johnson, public information chief for the
Washington State Department of Corrections
- 1996 ~ Joan Enticknap, president/COO of HomeStreet Bank
- 1995 ~ Scott Crueger, chief photographer for KIRO-TV
- 1994 ~ Randy Coplen, president of GBA/Gyroplanes of Seattle
Phyllis Collier, former Boeing manager
- 1993 ~ Joan DuBuque, King County Superior Court judge
- 1992 ~ Dr. Michael Hutchins, director and William G. Conway
Chair in Conservation and Science at the American Zoo and
Aquarium Association
- 1991: Wendie K. Harper, former detective for the Tacoma
Police Department
- 1990 ~ Norm Rice, former Mayor of Seattle
Last updated:
May 10, 2010
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