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Richard A. Davis, whom Booth named director of Labor & Industries.
Joe Dear, Davis’ whiz kid assistant, later the agency’s director.
Isiah Turner, named to head the Department of Employment Security. The Gardner
administration’s leading African American, Turner departed in a scandal.
Dan Grimm, the bright young chairman of the House Ways & Means Committee.
Dixy Lee Ray, Washington’s controversial 17 th governor. (1977-1981)
Amos Reed, Riveland’s predecessor as head of Corrections. Gardner pushed him out.
Dan McDonald, the Republican floor leader in the State Senate.
Dick Thompson, who first headed the Department of Community Development; later
Gardner’s governmental operations director.
Norm Maleng, the highly regarded King County Prosecutor who sought the GOP
nomination for governor in 1988.
Bob Williams, the “gadfly” Republican legislator from Longview who defeated Maleng,
only to be crushed by Gardner.
Chris Gregoire, the future two-term governor whom Gardner named director of the
Department of Ecology.
Mike Murphy, a Grays Harbor County commissioner who was one of Gardner’s earliest
supporters. Booth urged him to apply for the job of Wildlife director.
Curt Smitch, the Gardner staffer who got the job Murphy wanted.
Charles Z. Smith, Gardner’s first Washington Supreme Court appointee. The widely
respected former prosecutor, judge and law professor was the court’s first ethnic minority.
Joe King, the lanky speaker of the House. He liked Booth but questioned his political moxie.
Ralph Munro, Washington’s ebullient secretary of state and co-chairman of the 1989
Centennial with First Lady Jean Gardner.
Cynthia Robin Perkins, the young woman Booth met in Geneva and fell in love with.
Married in 2001 after his divorce from Jean, they divorced in 2008.
Dan Evans, the three-term Republican governor who teamed up with Gardner to promote
a funding plan to boost higher education.
Dr. Tom Preston, an “aid-in-dying” activist who was a stalwart of the Death With Dignity
campaign.