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Bob Hughes served seven terms (30 years) on the board of the Lake Washington School District in Redmond, Washington, and was elected President four times. He then severed an additional two terms (8 years on the Washington State Board of Education in Olympia, WA.
As graduate of the renown Carver Policy Governance Academy, Bob has helped a variety of boards explore and adopt a policy management form of governance designed to enhance their organizational effectiveness. He has been a regular invited lecturer on policy governance for university graduate classes and nonprofits, including HOA's, school boards, credit unions and private membership organizations. Bob was a founding member of the Executive Service Corps of Washington and a long serving member of the Washington State School Directors Association where he facilitated policy development activates for non-profits and governmental boards across the state.
A graduate of Western Washington University, Bob was employed by The Boeing Company, Seattle, Washington for 31 years (now retired), serving as Corporate Director of Education Relations, General Manager of Programming Services and General Manager of Professional Software Products. For two years before retirement he served in the capacity of a loaned executive, reporting directly to Dr. Judith Billings, Washington State's ...more...
Dr. Rick Maloney has over 15 years of school board experience in University Place, Washington, serving 8 terms as President. He is also (since 2006) a board member for the Washington State School Directors
Association. Since 1979 he has consulted
in governance and policy development with a wide variety of organizations. Rick led the development, adoption and implementation of Policy Governance (R) in his district from 2001 to the present, has published articles and given presentations about the model at state and national conferences. With Bob
Hughes, he has assisted other boards and their CEO's as they explored, adapted, and maintained the policy governance model. He has lectured on the board-superintendent relationship in support of Western Washington University superintendent candidates.
A graduate of the US Military Academy at West Point, Rick was an Army Engineer in his first career, leading organizations as commander and in various staff capacities, including human resource management, information technology, logistics management, and engineering. ...more...