Distinguished Alumni
Started in 1990, the Highline Community College Distinguished Alumni Award honors individuals who attended Highline and who are making outstanding contributions through community service, noteworthy professional achievement and/or recognized leadership. (Nominate an alum)
Recipients are:
- 2011 ~ Linda Yoshida, author and philanthropist
- 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
- 1994 ~ 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