booth gardner - Washington Secretary of State

Born: August 21, 1936, Tacoma General Hospital
Education: The Lakeside School, Seattle, 1954; University of
Washington, B.A., business administration, 1958; University of Washington
Law School, 1958-1959; Harvard University Business School, M.B.A., 1963
Professional career: Assistant to the dean, Harvard Business School,
1966-67; director, School of Business & Economics, University of Puget Sound,
1967-72; president, Laird Norton Company, 1972-80
Political affiliation: Democrat
Politics: First vice president, Associated Students of the University of
Washington, 1957-58; Washington State senator, 1970-73; Pierce County
executive, 1981-84; governor, State of Washington, January 16, 1985, to
January 13, 1993; U.S. ambassador to the General Agreement on Tariffs &
Trade, Geneva, 1993-97
Married: Jean Forstrom, 1960-2001; two children, Doug, born 1962;
Gail, 1963; Cynthia Robin Perkins, 2001-2008
Notably: Chaired the Western Governors’ Association, the National
Governors’ Association and the Education Commission of the States; named
one of three most effective governors in America in a Newsweek-Gallup
poll of his peers, 1991; honorary J.D., University of Puget Sound School of
Law; honorary degree, doctor of laws, Whitman College, 1991; McGraw
Hill Excellence in Education Award, 1993; co-founder of the Booth Gardner
Parkinson’s Care Center, Kirkland, WA, 2000
Other activities: Co-founder of the Central Area Youth Association,
Seattle, and the Seattle Mental Health Institute; former member of the boards
of: Troubleshooters, an advocacy group for the developmentally disabled;
the Weyerhaeuser Company, Puget Sound National Bank, the Washington
Commission for the Humanities, Metropolitan Building Corporation, Private
Industry Council, Central City Learning Center of Tacoma, University of Puget
Sound Board of Trustees; coach, the Cozars women’s soccer team
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