Josh Benaloh
Dr. Benaloh is Senior Cryptographer at Microsoft Research and an affiliate faculty member in Computer Science at the University of Washington. In addition to his background in technology, Dr. Benaloh has a deep interest in urban planning and transportation. He lives in Redmond and serves on the Overlake Neighborhood Citizen Advisory Committee and the Bellevue-Redmond RapidRide Advisory Panel. Dr. Benaloh holds degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Yale University.
Richard U. Chapin - Chair
Mr. Chapin is a retired land use attorney residing in Bellevue, where he is active in local and state affairs. He served in the Washington Legislature from the 48th District from 1967-1973 and was chair of the Washington State Land Planning Commission from 1973-1975. Among his civic interests, Mr. Chapin was on the boards of the Eastside YMCA, Bellevue Chamber of Commerce, Citizens School Advisory Committee, and King County Master Gardener Foundation. He also worked as a mediator, chaired the King County Bar Association’s Dispute Resolutions Committee, served on numerous Bar Association committees and is currently on its Drug Policy Committee.
Aubrey Davis
Mr. Davis has a distinguished record of public service in health care and transportation policy in the Puget Sound region. His many roles include Regional Administrator for the U.S. Department of Transportation, chair of the Washington Transportation Commission, member of the executive committee of the TransLake study and Sound Transit’s Expert Review Panel. He was a founding boardmember and CEO of Group Health Cooperative, Mercer Island Mayor and chair of two private companies. Mr. Davis is a resident of Mercer Island. His other interests include the arts and baseball.
Chris Elwell
Mr. Elwell is Executive Secretary of the Seattle-King County Building and Construction Trades Council. He manages day-to-day operations of the council, which serves 26 local unions and three district councils, representing 20,000 members. Mr. Elwell, who lives in Burien, also is an elected fire commissioner in King County Fire District Two. In these capacities, Mr. Elwell develops budgets, negotiates agreements, works with many jurisdictions to help shape policies and laws and serves on regional boards and committees, including the King County Workforce Development Council, the King County Emergency Management Committee and a working group of the Governor’s Climate Advisory Team.
Robert Miguel Goldstein
Mr. Goldstein brings financial and budget expertise to the Panel, having served as a chief financial officer, capital finance manager, budget manager and budget and policy analyst for the Seattle Public Library System, the Seattle School District, the City of Seattle and the California Legislature. Mr. Goldstein is also a published author and journalist who covered local, county and state government for the Bellevue Journal-American and the Walla-Walla Union-Bulletin. His policy areas included transportation, K-12 education, capital project financial management, financial reporting and long-range planning. Mr. Goldstein is a resident of Seattle. He earned a MPA at the University of Washington’s Evans School of Public Affairs.
Miriam Helgeland
Ms. Helgeland is a retired teacher and long-time League of Women Voters Boardmember and officer in the South King County area. She is active on the League’s regional transportation committee and participated in site visits to Portland and Vancouver to study their light rail systems. Ms. Helgeland served on the King County Charter Review Commission in 1987-88 and later on a League King County governance study committee. She was also president of the Star Lake Improvement Club.
Karen Miller
Ms. Miller, a resident of Mountlake Terrace, is a former member of the Snohomish County Council, which she chaired for two years. Among numerous civic activities, she served on the Mountlake Terrace Planning Commission and Library Board, the Board of Directors for the Luther Child Center and the Snohomish County Public Defenders Association. She was on the Board of Trustees of Edmonds Community College for over 20 years, was president of the Community and Technical Colleges Association of the State of Washington, and was president of the Municipal Research Services Corporation. Ms. Miller is chair of the Washington State Housing Finance Commission.
Michael W. Murphy
Mr. Murphy recently relocated to the Puget Sound area from upstate New York, where he was an elected village boardmember and planning boardmember as well as chair of the town’s strategic plan and comprehensive plan committees. An electrical engineer, Mr. Murphy most recently served as senior project engineer at General Motors Hydrogen Fuel Cell R&D Center. He also was an engineering consultant in Ireland and Norway and in various U.S. positions involving manufacturing and testing of hybrid circuits. Mr. Murphy resides in North Seattle.
David A. Russell, Ph.D.
Mr. Russell is a retired professor and chair of the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics at the University of Washington. He earned his Ph.D. at Caltech, worked in aircraft, energy and medical engineering, and co-founded a successful engineering research firm before his retirement in 2000. Mr. Russell is a former elected official, having served as mayor and council member of the City of Kirkland and as president of the Puget Sound Regional Council. He also served on the Sound Transit Board in its early years. Mr. Russell was named Public Official of the Year by the Municipal League of King County in 1996. His current civic involvement includes Futurewise and the Cascade Land Conservancy.
Stuart Lee Scheuerman
Mr. Scheuerman is a civil engineering project manager and licensed engineering geologist who has worked with ESM Consulting Engineers in Federal Way for the past 18 years. He is a resident of Sumner where he served as an elected city councilmember, on the Regional Transit Authority Task Force as well as the city’s Design Review Commission. Mr. Scheuerman’s professional involvement also included membership on the American Public Works Association Stormwater Managers Committee and on the Washington State Joint Task Force on Green Building.
Bruce W. Seiber
Mr. Seiber is a senior program manager with 25 years experience in cost, schedule, and performance execution; logistical support; requirements analysis; and programming and budgeting, with the U.S. Air Force, the Department of Defense and most recently Northrop Grumman Corporation. Mr. Seiber is also a certified middle school teacher who taught algebra in the University Place School District. He lives in University Place and works in Lakewood. Mr. Seiber has degrees from the University of Puget Sound and the University of Southern California.
Virendra (Vic) K. Sood
Mr. Sood, a resident of Mountlake Terrace, has been involved with public transit services for 32 years. He initiated the Public Transportation Benefit Area enabling legislation and served as first Executive Director of Community Transit in Snohomish County. He also was the first general manager of the newly formed Livermore/Amador Valley Transit Authority in the San Francisco Bay area. In retirement, Mr. Sood is active with the Board of Directors of the Snohomish County Committee for Improved Transportation, and the City of Mountlake Terrace’s Planning Commission and Civic Facilities Task Force.
J.D. Wessling
Mr. Wessling retired as Chief Financial Officer at Cascade Natural Gas Corp. where he worked for over 11 years. Following retirement, Mr. Wessling and his wife volunteered with the Peace Corps and were assigned to the Republic of Moldova where they worked in community and organizational development. Mr. Wessling also held senior level executive positions with a number of large public and private companies. His experience includes structuring major equity and debt offerings, interacting with Wall Street bankers and analysts, planning, budgeting and policy development. He is a CPA and also had responsibility for various areas of operations ranging from information technology and inventory control systems to marketing. Mr. Wessling is a longtime resident of downtown Seattle and, among other activities, is a past boardmember and treasurer of the Pike Place Market Foundation. He is an avid tennis player.
Paul J. Wiesner, MD - Vice Chair
Dr. Wiesner is a semi-retired public health physician and active member of the Roosevelt Neighborhood Association where he advocated for the 12th Avenue light rail alignment. Dr. Wiesner is on the faculty at the Northwest Center for Public Health Practice at the University of Washington and is the author of more than 70 articles in scientific journals. During his medical career, he directed several national programs at the Centers for Disease Control, served as director of a county board of health, and was a member and leader in various associations of public health officials. In 2002, he was honored as Health Officer of the Year by the National Association of Local Boards of Health.
Former Panel Members
Bruce Agnew, Edmonds, served 1997-1999.
Anoop Batra, Federal Way, served 1997.
Patsy Tsui Bonincontri, Bellevue, served 2004-2008.
Diane Carlson, Tacoma, served 1997-1999.
Arlington W. (Art) Carter Jr., Seattle, served 1997-2004, served as chair 2001-2003.
Darrell Chapman, Snohomish County, served 2002-2003.
Marcus Courtney, Seattle, served 2003-2004.
Allan B. Darr, Everett, served 1997-2001.
Bertha Eades, Redmond, served 1998-2007.
Claudia B. Ellsworth, Tacoma, served 1999-2001.
Steven M. Goldblatt, Seattle, served 1997-2003, served as chair 1997-1999.
Ramon J. Gould, Edmonds, served 2000-2004.
Donald L. Green, Lakewood, served 2005-2008.
Kevin J. Grossman, Shoreline, served 2004.
Virginia Gunby, Seattle, served 1997-2004.
Lynn A. Guttmann, Seattle, served 2006.
Rea Hagan, Tacoma, served 2001-2005.
Frederick M. Hart, Seattle, served 1997-2003.
Robert B. Hitchcock, Tacoma, served 2006-2009
Michael A. (Tony) Hudson, Tacoma, served 1998-2000.
Bill LaBorde, Tacoma, served 2003-2007 and 2007-2008.
Terry Lukens, Bellevue, served 1997-1999.
Thomas M. Luthy, Bellevue, served 1997-2003.
Kristi A. Mandt, Seattle, served 1997-2001.
Paul W. Masten, Lynnwood, served 2004-2008.
Mary McCumber, Seattle, served 2004-2005.
John Murtha, Seattle, served 2005.
David Osaki, Federal Way, served 1997-2003.
C.T. Purdom, Federal Way, served 2006.
Andrew Reay-Ellers, Lake Forest Park, Served 2007-2008.
Katherine Rose, Tacoma, served 1997-1998.
Donald L. Russell, Seattle, served 2003.
Thomas R. Ryan, Puyallup, served 2005-2007.
Jessyn Schor, Seattle, served 2004-2005.
Larry E. Shannon, Bellevue, served 1999-2007, served as chair 2003-2005.
Reid Shockey, Everett, served 1997-2003, served as chair 1999-2001.
Al Stipe, Federal Way, served 1997-2005.
Stephen C. Wamback, Tacoma, served 2001-2005.
Stephanie Weber, Kirkland, served 1997-1998.
Phillip TK Yin, Seattle, served 2001-2003
