March 11, 2026

Puget Sound Partnership

Roberts

Gov. Bob Ferguson has appointed Mindy Roberts as the new executive director of the Puget Sound Partnership.

Roberts brings decades of experience in clean water, habitat protection, and environmental policy. She previously served for 10 years as Puget Sound program director at Washington Conservation Action, an environmental nonprofit, where she worked to advance environmental policies at the state, federal and local levels; strengthen clean water regulations; and protect and restore healthy habitat for salmon, orcas and people.

Before joining Washington Conservation Action, Roberts served 16 years as an environmental engineer at the state Department of Ecology. She helped develop the original Marine Water Quality Vital Sign adopted by the Partnership and led Ecology's Salish Sea modeling efforts to understand how sewage and toxic pollution impact people and natural resources. She also served as affiliate faculty at the University of Washington Tacoma from 2008 to 2023, where she developed and taught an undergraduate field course on stream ecology.

She earned three engineering degrees, including a bachelor's from the University of California, Berkeley, master's from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and Ph.D. from the University of Washington.

Puget Sound Partnership is the state agency that leads the region's collective effort to restore and protect Puget Sound. The Partnership works with hundreds of tribal, federal, state and local partners on actions that advance recovery based on science.