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Washington State Parks and Recreation Commission
Washington State Parks and Recreation Commissioners
The commission is made up of seven citizen members appointed by the governor.
Commissioners may not hold elected or full-time appointive office
during their service and receive no pay beyond legitimate travel expenses.
Mickey Fearn
Seattle
Term expires: Dec. 31, 2008
Mickey Fearn has more than 30 years of experience as an internal consultant, organizational development
specialist and facilitator working with corporations and public agencies. He serves on the boards of
directors of the Pacific Northwest Ballet, the Institute for Creative Development and Big Brothers of
King County. He also serves on the State Advisory Council for Law in Justice. In April 1997, he
was a delegate to the President's Summit on America's Future.
Fred Olson, Secretary
Olympia
Term expires: Dec. 31, 2012
Fred Olson recently retired from Washington State Government. During his career with the state, he
served as Deputy Director of the Department of Ecology, Director of Administration for the Office of
the Attorney General, and prior to retirement was Deputy Chief of Staff for Governor Chris Gregoire.
Before joining state government he worked for 17 years in the newspaper business as a reporter and
managing editor of The Olympian. Olson serves on the Board of Directors for the Washington State
Employees Credit Union. He is a Washington native, an outdoors enthusiast, and is committed to helping
make the state’s recreational, cultural, historical, and natural resources available to the public
through the parks system.
Robert C. Petersen
Long Beach
Term expires: Dec. 31, 2008
Bob Petersen, a former manager of the Port of Ilwaco, has decades of experience in the boating
and shipping trades. He has served on several environmental and recreational committees,
including the Columbia River Estuary Study Task Force and the Pacific County Regional Planning
Council. In 1986, he was honored as the Washington Department of Fisheries Citizen of the Year.
He recently built a small cruising sailboat of his own design, which he and his wife use to visit
Washington state marine parks.
Eliot Scull, Vice Chair
East Wenatchee
Term expires: Dec. 31, 2010
Eliot Scull is a retired ophthalmologist who was raised on the East Coast and moved to Seattle in 1967.
He and his wife Tina relocated to Wenatchee eight years later, where they have practiced medicine ever
since. Scull's lifelong interest in the outdoors has led him to serve as chair of the Chelan County Parks
Board, a trustee of the Washington state chapter of the Nature Conservancy and two terms on the board of
the Interagency Committee for Outdoor Recreation (including one term as chairman). He is a co-founder
and current president of the Chelan-Douglas Land Trust. He also is a former board member of the San Juan
Preservation Trust, where he holds the emeritus position of Land Counselor. He believes strongly in public
lands and particularly in State Parks as an important responsibility of Washington state government. He
wants to see a healthy and growing system of parks across the state.
Joe Taller
Olympia
Term expires: Dec. 31, 2012
Joe Taller has served in both public and private sectors. He joined the Boeing Company in 1957 and
retired in 1997 after having worked in engineering, industrial relations and community affairs. He
directed the company's corporate contributions and K-12 education program and managed several areas
of human resources at the corporate headquarters level. Taller has served the public as a Washington
state representative, elected three times from the 36th district and was director of the Washington
State Office of Financial Management between 1981 and 1985. He was executive director of Washington
Promise and state director of Communities in Schools. An active Washington citizen, Taller has been
board vice president of the Washington State Historical Society and was a founding board member of
the Washington Wildlife and Recreation Coalition. He also has served as a member on the American Red
Cross National Board of Governors and the Heritage College Board of Directors.
Joan K. Thomas
Seattle
Term expires: Dec. 31, 2008
Joan Thomas retired in 1994 from the State Board of Tax Appeals, where she served as property tax
referee. She is a past president of both the Washington Environmental Council and the League of Women
Voters of Washington and a founding board member of the Washington Wildlife and Recreation Coalition.
She currently sits on the board of directors of Friends of Discovery Park. Her interest in parks
and recreation dates back to the 1960s when she worked on Initiative 215, which established the
Interagency Committee for Outdoor Recreation.
Cecilia Vogt, Chair
Yakima
Term expires: Dec. 31, 2010
Cecilia Vogt is recently retired, having served since April 2002, as executive director of the Yakima
Valley Chapter of the American Red Cross. Prior to that, she was owner of Cecilia Vogt Consulting,
assisting non-profit organizations and businesses with image promotion, strategic planning, fund-raising,
meeting facilitation and special projects. She served for three years as public relations director, then
eight years as executive director of the Yakima Greenway Foundation, a 3600-acre private, non-profit land
trust. She earned her Bachelor of Arts degree in public relations with a minor in environmental studies at
Central Washington University in 1988. Her other affiliations include serving as co-founder and past
president of the Washington State Trails Coalition; member of the Red Cross Washington State Service Council;
Yakima Rotary Club member; former member of the Yakima Bike/Pedestrian Advisory Committee; board member of
Cowiche Canyon Conservancy and board member of Central Washington Comprehensive Mental Health. She is an
avid outdoors enthusiast, parks user, hiker, cyclist and skier with a passion for protecting the environment.
The Washington State Parks and Recreation Commission meets in various locations around the state.
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