Apr 02, 2019

Pacific Medical Centers

Seattle-based Pacific Medical Centers promoted Drs. Lise Alexander and Lisa Ivanjack to co-chiefs. Alexander and Ivanjack will help reshape PacMed's primary care operations. Both have been with PacMed for over seven years. The promotions fill a vacancy left by Dr. Betsy McCarthy's return to full-time medical practice.

City of Yakima

Matthew Murray will be the new police chief of Yakima. Murray is a lieutenant in charge of the Denver Police Department's Community Relations department. He starts his new position on May 1, succeeding Dominic Rizzi, who was fired last fall. Capt. Gary Jones is interim chief.

Parker, Smith & Feek

In Bellevue, Parker, Smith & Feek elected Nicholas King to its board. King is a principal, vice president and account executive at the insurance broker. He also leads the Real Estate Practice Group.

Prime Electric

Ledford

Bob Ledford is the new president of Prime Electric in Bellevue. Ledford was global director of delivery at Aecom and CFO at Parsons, Sasco and Hermanson Co. prior to that. The company also announced that Terry Hatch, chief information officer, and Jeffrey Tomlinson, Pacific Northwest executive sales director, have become shareholders.

Forma Construction Co.

Wood

Manning

Jorgenson

Holden

Helms

Miller

Favia

In its Seattle office, Forma Construction Co. hired Jesse Favia and Evan Miller as project engineers; new hires in the Olympia office are Kody Helms as project manager, Graydon Holden as assistant superintendent, Alli Jorgenson as controller, Nicole Manning as project accountant and Michelle Wood as project administrator. Favia, a licensed geologist, was a geotechnical engineering consultant at Aspect Consulting. Miller recently graduated from Central Washington University's Construction Management program and was an intern at Forma. Helms comes from Walsh Construction. He spent seven years as a journeyman carpenter before transitioning to construction management two decades ago. Holden has more than 20 years of construction experience. Jorgenson is a CPA with six years of accounting experience, most recently at the Association of Washington School Principals. Manning has seven years of accounting experience, most recently at Premier Power Electric. Wood has 18 years of industry experience and comes from a firm specializing in fire damage restoration.

The Walsh Group

Barrett

In Seattle, The Walsh Group hired Stephen Barrett as project engineer. Barrett comes from the Navy, where he spent 12 years in the Civil Engineer Corps, specializing in construction and facility management, and expeditionary engineering. At Walsh, he is working on the Hilltop Link extension in Tacoma.

Mar 29, 2019

U.S. Court of Appeals

The U.S. Senate confirmed the nomination of Bridget S. Bade as a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Bade is a federal magistrate judge in Phoenix. Before that, she was an assistant attorney for the District of Arizona, working in the Civil and Appellate divisions of the U.S. Attorney's Office. The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals hears cases in nine western states and two Pacific Island jurisdictions.

Qumulo

Dan Miller, executive vice president of worldwide field sales, services and support for Tableau Software, joined Qumulo's board. Miller has more than 30 years of experience at global technology organizations including Oracle, Juniper Networks, Hewlett-Packard and Sun Microsystems. Qumulo is a Seattle-based provider of hybrid cloud storage.

Tacoma MBDA Business Center

Tacoma Minority Business Development Agency Business Center won an award from the Northwest Mountain Minority Supplier Development Council for advocating, promoting and contracting with minority business enterprises. MBDA Business Center was cited for its collaboration on Amazon Business' global eCommerce platform pilot project for MBEs. Linda Lee Womack is director of the business center.