Sue
Donaldson,
The
Forum at the Evans School,
Daniel J. Evans School of Public Affairs
She served as the President
of the Seattle City Council and Chair of the Council's Government,
Education and Labor Committee from January 1998 through December
31, 1999. In her ten-year tenure on the Council, she tackled a
number of important issues affecting neighborhoods, parks and recreation,
and business and trade. She has been a leader in recognizing and
promoting volunteerism as the chair of the Washington State Commission
for National and Community Service, which oversees the state's
Americorps program and as the immediate past chair of the national
organization of state service commissions. She was a member of
the Seattle delegation to the immediate past national America's
Promise Summit. One of her chief concerns has been improving the
lives of Seattle's youth. She helped create the Seattle Youth Involvement
Network, Youth Involvement Day and Youth Engaged in Service. She
developed special bus fares for youth and special needs populations,
initiated the creation of the Garfield Teen Life Center and proposed
safe havens for abandoned newborns.
She has served on many
national and local boards, including the National League of Cities,
the American Association of State Service Commissions, the Washington
State Public Trust and Confidence Committee and Children's Home
Society of Washington. She has received numerous awards, including
the "Seattle Distinguished Citizen" Medal from Mayor
Paul Schell in 1999.
Sue Donaldson is a graduate
of the University of Washington Law School, a magna cum laude graduate
of Harvard-Radcliffe College and was valedictorian of Roosevelt
High School in Seattle. She and her husband, Dr. Paul Fletcher,
have three daughters: Kate (a graduate of Oberlin College), Emily
(Whitman College, '03) and Laura (Roosevelt High School, '02).
