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Recipients of the Friend of Housing Award

Award recipients are nominated annually by their peers and colleagues working in the public, private and independent sectors of the affordable housing industry.  Honorees are selected for their leadership and exceptional contribution to provide safe, decent and affordable housing. Please contact Bill Wortley at 206-297-4409 for more information about Friend of Housing Awards. 

2010

Friend of Housing Individual Achievement Award
Cathie Griffith, Homeownership Opportunities Specialist, ARC of Spokane | Media Release (Word) | (PDF)
Photo: Cathie Griffith and Commissioner Ray Rieckers

Friend of Housing Individual Achievement Award
Maureen Howard, Executive Director, Habitat for Humanity of Washington State | Media Release (Word) | (PDF)
Photo: Maureen Howard and Commissioner Dan McConnon

Friend of Housing Individual Achievement Award
Paul Lambros, Executive Director, Plymouth Housing Group (Seattle) | Media Release (Word) | (PDF)
Photo: Paul Lambros and Commissioner M. A. Leonard

Friend of Housing Organizational Achievement Award
Downtown Emergency Service Center | Media Release (Word) | (PDF)
Photo: Dan Malone of the Downtown Emergency Service Center and Commissioner Pam Tietz

Friend of Housing Organizational Achievement Award
Sea Mar Community Health Centers | Media Release (Word) | (PDF)
Photo: Sea Mar Community Health Centers CEO Rogelio Riojas and Commissioner Mario Villanueva

2009

• Sheila King, Multifamily Affordable Properties
• Renee Rooker, Executive Director, Walla Walla Housing Authority
• Housing Authority of Chelan County / City of Wenatchee
• Islanders Bank of Friday Harbor
• Pioneer Human Services

2008

• Edwin Petersen, Founder, Housing Hope, Everett
• Linda Hugo, Executive Director, Community Frameworks, Bremerton
• Lisa Vatske, Housing Officer, CTED, Olympia
• Mark Lundgren, M.C. Lundgren General Contractor, Inc. (Spokane area)
• Sue Taoka, Executive Vice President, Shorebank Enterprise Cascadia, Seattle
• Housing Authority of Grant County

2007

• Maureen Kostyak, Seattle Office of Housing
• Melinda Szatlocky of Port Angeles 
• Ishbel Dickens of Columbia Legal Services, Seattle
• Pam Blanton, King County Developmental Disabilities Division
• Representative Eric Pettigrew of Seattle
• Nola Renz, Executive Director, Helping Hand House, Puyallup
• GreenStone Homes of Liberty Lake, Spokane area
• Next Step Housing of Yakima

2006

• Nora Gibson, Executive Director, ElderHealth Northwest 
• Christine Robison, residential loan officer at Umpqua Bank
• Lisa Byers, OPAL Community Land Trust’s executive director
• Lynn Davison, executive director of Common Ground
• State Senator Darlene Fairley, 32nd Legislative District
• Spokane Service Team Educational Service District 101
• Real Change
• Friends of Youth and Hopelink

2005

• Bill Zeck and Rod Butler, Zeck Butler Architects
• Enumclaw Housing Task Force
• Intercommunity Mercy Housing (IMH)
• Erin Kelleher, Affordable Community Environments (ACE)
• The Honorable Governor Mike Lowry
• Representative Fred Jarret
• Representatives Mark Miloscia and Timm Ormsby
• Corky Senecal, member of the board of directors of the Washington State Coalition for the Homeless

2004

• Valerie Felt, loan originator for Columbia Bank in Longview
  
• Paul Purcell, President of Beacon Development Group
• The Honorable Governor John Spellman
• Tom Lattimore, Impact Capital
•  Anne and Rick Steves
• Washington Growers League
• Homeownership Center of Tacoma
• Bob Drewel, Snohomish County Executive
• The Honorable Governor Gary Locke

2003

• Tonkin, Hoyne, Lokan
• Mario Villanueva, Director of the Diocese of Yakima Housing Services
• Kay Cram, Board President, Spokane Homeownership Resource Center, Loan Originator, Action Mortgage
  
• Henry Beauchamp, Opportunities Industrialization Center of Washington
• Susan Duren, Vice President, Washington Community Reinvestment Association
• Judy Dailey, Vice President and Community Investment Officer, Federal Home Loan Bank of Seattle
• State Senator Joseph Zarelli is a Republican representing the 18th Legislative District

2002

• Margaret Maxwell, Director, Washington State Coalition for the Homeless
• Compass Center
• Don Brewer, Senior Vice President, Key Bank
• Benson East Tenants Association
• James Dunn, Washington State Representative, R - 17th District
• Norman and Stella Chivers, Parkview Services

2001

• South King County Multi-Service Center, Ms. Dini Duclos, Executive Director
• David Cheal, Counsel, Senate Services, Labor, Commerce and Financial Institutions
• Heyward Watson, Director, Fannie Mae, Washington State Partnership Office
• Ken Katahira, Development Director, Interim Community Development Association
  
• Jose Hidalgo, Loan Officer, Seattle Mortgage Company
  
• Senator Lisa Brown, Washington State Legislature, Spokane’s Third District

2000

• Washington Trust
• Majken Ryherd
• Siobhan Ring, the Tenants Union
• Office of Rural and Farmworker Housing
• Don Hines, Tacoma Redevelopment Authority
• Jack Gallagher, Fannie Mae
  

1999

• Peggy Burrell, Spokane Neighborhood Action Programs (SNAP)
• Columbia Legal Services
• Dorothy Lengyel, HomeSight
• Torris McCall, US Bank
• Kathy Roseth, Executive Director; Lutheran Alliance To Create Housing (LATCH)
• Brian Royer, Royer & Association
• Yakima Valley Partners/Habitat for Humanity
  

1998

• Joe Diehl, Executive Director; Washington Council of Affordable Rural Housing
• Ron Simms, King County Executive
• Carla Okigwe, Executive Director; Housing Development Consortium of Seattle-King County
• Rose Ann Lindsey, Loan officer; INB Mortgage
• Betsy Palma, La Clinica Self-Help Housing Program
• Guillermo Castanada, La Clinica Self-Help Housing Program
• Jon Gould; Children’s Alliance
• Spokane Neighborhood Action Programs (SNAP)
• State Representative Phyllis Gutierrez-Kenny
  

1997

• Bob Boyer, Washington Trust Bank
• Cheryl Cervantes
• Michael Dotson, Seafirst Bank
• Helen Dunlap
• El Patio Apartments; a nonprofit project
• State Senator Rosa Franklin
• Mark Kantor
• Doris Morgan, Holly Park Community Council
• Northwest Regional Facilitators
• State Senator Shirley Winsley

1996

• Pam Alden, Continental Mortgage
• Mary Jo Harvey
• High Point Resident Initiative Association
• David Mandley
• Steve Maloney, Mellon Mortgage
• John McEvoy
• Phoebe Nelson
• Okanogan County Community Action Council
• Kenny Pitman
• State Representative Renee Radcliff
• State Senator Margarita Prentice
• Michael Ryherd
• Nancy Smith
• State Representative Mary Skinner
• Harry Thomas

1995

• Sandy Bishop, Lopez Island Community Land Trust
• Alberta Canada, Executive Director, Martin Luther King Housing Development Association
• Kurt Creager, Executive Director, Vancouver Housing Authority
• Skip Chilberg, Chair, Washington State Housing Finance Commission
• Deborah Davis, Housing Chief, Rural, Economic, and Community Development Service
• Sharon Lee, Executive Director, Low-Income Housing Institute
• Danielle Pensley, VISTA volunteer with Housing Hope
• Andrew Reid, Executive Director, Spokane Low-Income Housing Consortium
• Judy Reed, Executive Director, Washington Community Reinvestment Association
• Neil Treitman, CEO/Developer, Community Development Services
• Dave Voss, loan officer, Continental Bank
  

1994

• Len Brannen
• Brooke Creswell, ORFH
• Diana Goodwin Shavey
• Dick Maison, West One Bank/Yakima Valley Bank
• Norm McLoughlin, Kitsap Co. Consolidated Housing Authority
• Jeff Robinson, CTED, Housing Trust Fund
• Alan Schulkin
• U.S. Bank
• Ken Mayhew, Washington Mutual

07/07/2010