Dec 12, 2001

Skagit County District Court

Skagit County District Court administrator Pam Springer was awarded the Court Manager of the Year award from the state's Court Management Council. The award is presented annually to a court manager making significant contributions to court services. She has been instrumental in establishing a re-licensing program for drivers who have lost their licenses and is in a leadership role for court outreach programs in schools and the community. Springer was appointed to the Skagit County District Court in 1985.

Wolfstone, Panchot & Bloch

Steven N. Ross is a new shareholder in the firm of Wolfstone, Panchot & Bloch. His practice is in labor and employment law.

Seattle Public Schools

Newly elected school board members Mary Bass and Dick Lilly along with Jan Kumasaka, who was elected to a second term, have been sworn in and will join the board this week. All three are Seattle public school graduates. Bass is a graduate of Garfield High School and replaces 20-year board veteran Michael Preston. Lilly is a graduate of Roosevelt High School and replaces Don Nielsen who served on the board for eight years. Kumasaka graduated from Rainier Beach High School.

Port of Bremerton

Dick Brandenburg announced his retirement from the position of executive director of the Port of Bremerton. Brandenburg has served as executive director for the past five years and will begin his retirement on Dec. 31.

Mayflower Park Hotel

Stitzel

The Mayflower Park Hotel promoted Maria Stitzel to reservations manager. She has been with the Seattle hotel since 1998. The Mayflower was built in 1927 and is a member of the Historic Hotels of America.

Williams, Kastner & Gibbs

Peterson

Wright

Arissa M. Peterson and William F. Wright have joined the law firm of Williams, Kastner & Gibbs as associates. Peterson will focus on civil litigation in the firm's Seattle office. Wright will focus on land use matters and litigation in the firm's Tacoma office.

HomeStreet Capital

HomeStreet Capital hired Chris Hutchings as income property loan officer for its Seattle office. Hutchings will be responsible for arranging commercial and multifamily real estate financing in the Puget Sound area. Hutchings was a member of the Seattle investment group at Colliers International.

Integrus

Integrus Architecture recently announced the following promotions to senior associate: Denise Garceau, business manager, and Jeffrey Middleton, senior architect. Promoted to associate were: Layne Bachman, job captain; Brian Carter, project manager; Bob Estlund, justice specialist; Merlyn "Butch" Hoover, construction projects specialist; Bob Hutchison, justice manager; David Maughan, project manager and production manager; Stephanie Ogram, interior design manager; Rich Siddons, justice specialist; and Martin Sweet, project manager.

Callison

Callison Architecture announced the promotion of four senior staff members to associate principal: Matt Billerbeck, Susan Koenigs, Martin Hill and Barry Vaudrin.

Billerbeck has been with Callison since 1993, working as the lead architect for the shell design team for stores. In this role, he works on all Nordstrom shell architecture, as well as Siebu, L.L. Bean and Guess stores.

Koenigs is the manager of Callison’s information technology services, and oversees technology programs and leads technology initiatives. As a member of the AIA Large Firm Roundtable for CIOs and the A/E/C Systems National Roundtable, she investigates and brings back the best technology practices to share with staff and clients.

Hill is a project manager with a broad range of experience. His focus is on program management of multi-project, multi-site rollouts. He is managing a major market expansion of Washington Mutual retail banks in Atlanta and has delivered several hundred retail projects for them across the United States. His prototyping and roll out experience also includes multi-location projects for Fortune 500 wireless clients.

Vaudrin is a senior project architect and manager with a long track record of building design projects for technology companies.