Marie McCaffrey, President
Marie M. McCaffrey was appointed to the Library Board by then-Mayor Greg Nickels in July 2006. She was a consultant to the 1998 "Libraries for All" bond campaign and later served on the Library Oversight Committee that monitors the implementation and financing of the building program. A native Seattleite, McCaffrey graduated from Nathan Hale High School and studied art and design at the University of Washington. She and her late husband, Walt Crowley, established a design and communications consultancy in 1980. McCaffrey, who lives in the Phinney Ridge neighborhood, now specializes in designing Web sites and books, which have won several awards. McCaffrey served two terms on the Seattle Arts Commission, which honored her in 1996 with the Howard S. Wright Award for outstanding support of the arts. She also has sat on the boards of the Northwest Chamber Orchestra, Center on Contemporary Art, Point-No-Point literary magazine, and Real Change. She also is a co-founder, trustee, and executive and art director of HistoryLink.org, the nation's first online encyclopedia of state and local history created expressly for the Internet.
Jane Noland, Vice President
Jane Noland was appointed to the Library Board by then-Mayor Greg Nickels in August 2009. Noland is a glass artist in Seattle. She served three terms on the Seattle City Council from 1986-1997. Before she was elected, she worked as a lawyer at Perkins Coie and served as attorney for the King County Council. She currently serves on the Washington State Public Disclosure Commission. Noland also has served as a board member of the Seattle King County Bar Association, the Pratt Fine Arts Center and the King County Board of Health. She chaired the Metro ADA task force, and was a charter member of the Legal Foundation of Washington and the Northwest Women's Law Center. She also has served as president of the Washington Association of Cities, Washington Women Lawyers and the Women's Network. Noland graduated from the Women's College of the University of North Carolina with a bachelor's degree in history, received a master's degree in public law and government from Columbia University and has a law degree from Seattle University. She received the Distinguished Law Graduate award from Seattle University in 1992.
Dan Dixon
Dan Dixon was appointed to the Library Board by then-Mayor Greg Nickels in December 2009. Currently vice president for external affairs for Swedish Medical Center, Dixon has more than 30 years of experience in the public and private sectors in law, government and political affairs, business development, finance, international affairs and corporate affairs. Dixon was Alaska's first director of international trade, and later practiced law with the Seattle-based firm Foster Pepper and Shefelman, where he was an authority in domestic and international business, politics, community relations and finance. He served as a founding director of Cambridge Partners, a Wall Street bank specializing in public finance, and was founding chairman of iCopyright. He also has served as chairman of the board of Biolab, a director of the Washington/China Relations Council, director of Seattle CityClub, chairman of the advisory board of Universal Access Inc., and is a past director of Norsat, a publicly traded Canadian company. Dixon helped bring one of the most technologically advanced heart and vascular institutes in the world to the Swedish Medical Center, and serves as director of the board of advisers for Seattle Heart and Vascular Institute and Seattle Neuroscience Institute.
Theresa Fujiwara
Theresa Fujiwara was appointed to the Library Board by Mayor Mike McGinn in December 2010. She currently serves as the strategy and policy adviser for the White Center Community Development Association, the designated lead agency for the Annie E. Casey Foundation Making Connections Initiative. As the former site director for the Making Connections Initiative, Fujiwara was responsible for the design, leadership, and oversight of the foundation's 10-year community change initiative aimed at improving outcomes for vulnerable children and families. Fujiwara also has served as special assistant for Health and Human Services for Mayor Paul Schell and regional government relations coordinator for Mayor Norm Rice, and was the associate and executive director of the Asian Counseling and Referral Service, a nonprofit organization offering an array of social and behavioral health services in a multilingual, multicultural setting. Fujiwara has served on a variety of boards and commissions including: Nonprofit Assistance Center, United Way of King County, Refugee Women's Alliance, Interim, Japanese American Citizens League, Minority Executive Directors Coalition, Mayor's Housing Levy Oversight Committee, and the Children's Alliance. A native of Seattle, Fujiwara received her bachelor's degree and master's degree in social work from the University of Washington.
Eric Liu
Eric Liu was appointed to the Library Board by then-Mayor Greg Nickels in April 2002 and reappointed in June 2007. Liu is the author of "Guiding Lights: How to Mentor - and Find Life's Purpose," the official book of National Mentoring Month. He also is the author of "The Accidental Asian: Notes of a Native Speaker," a New York Times Notable Book featured in the PBS documentary "Matters of Race," and he edited the Norton anthology "Next: Young American Writers on the New Generation." Liu served as a speechwriter for President Bill Clinton in the first term and as White House deputy domestic policy adviser in the second term. After the White House, he was an executive at the digital media company RealNetworks. He also has been a frequent commentator on CNN, MSNBC and CNBC. In 2002, Liu was named by the World Economic Forum as one of the 100 Global Leaders of Tomorrow. He teaches at the University of Washington's Evans School of Public Affairs and hosts a television interview program called "Seattle Voices." In addition to organizing annual Guiding Lights mentoring weekends, Liu speaks regularly at conferences, corporations and campuses around the country. He also serves on the boards of numerous civic organizations, including the Washington State Board of Education, Demos, and the League of Education Voters. He also is the son of a former public librarian.
