Board of Trustees

Members 2024–2025

• Patrick J. Callans, Chair
  Executive Vice President, Administration
  Costco Wholesale
• Jason Oliver, Vice Chair
  Human Resources Executive
• Kathleen Aikenhead
  President
  William H. Hannon Foundation 
• Ann Alokolaro
  Director of Admissions
  Seattle Preparatory School 
  
• Fernando Alvarez Lara, S.J.
  Associate Professor, Religious Studies
  Regis University
  
• Arturo Araujo, S.J.
  Rector, Arrupe Jesuit Community
  Associate Professor, College of Arts & Sciences
• Ann Blume
  Co-Founder
  Blume Company 
• Maureen Brotherton
  SOS Foundation
• Laury Bryant
  Community Leader in Service
• David W. Burcham
  Retired
  Former President of LMU
• Brenda Christensen
  Author, Investor
  Emerging Company Advisor
• Hon. Anita Crawford-Willis
  Municipal Court Judge
  Seattle Municipal Court
  
• Paul Fitzgerald, S.J.
  President
  University of San Francisco
• Melvin Flowers
  Retired
  Microsoft
• Valerie Gorder
  Gaard Development
• Robert B. Grimm, S.J.
  Arrupe Jesuit Community
  Seattle University
• Russell S. Hagen
  Chief Development Officer (CDO)
  Weyerhaeuser
• Drew Herdener
  Senior Vice President, Global Communications & Community Impact
  Amazon
• Hon. Richard A. Jones
  District Court Judge
  Western District of Washington
• Patrick F. Kennedy
  CEO
  Hawthorn Senior Living, LLC 
• Steven P. Knight
  President & CEO
  Olympic Eagle Distributing
• Tod Leiweke
  CEO
  Seattle Kraken
• Charles (Chuck) H. Porter
  Former CIO – Accenture
  Former CIO – Seattle University
  Emerging Company Advisor
• Mala Raman
  Community Leader in Service
• Fred Rivera
  Executive Vice President & General Counsel
  Seattle Mariners
• David C. Rothrock
  Principal
  Meriwether Advisors LLC
  
• Ryan Sawyer
  Founder and Owner
  Viewpoint Capital Management
  
• Lucas Sharma, S.J.
  Jesuit
  Doctoral Student 
• Ezra Teshome
  Agent
  State Farm Insurance
• Ruth A. Tressel
  Attorney at Law
  Ruth Tressel, LLC
• John H. Vassall, II, MD
  Associate Dean, Clinical Education
  Elson S. Floyd College of Medicine
  Washington State University Everett
• Eric J. Watson, S.J.
  Jesuit
  Associate Professor of Chemistry
  Seattle University
• Ana M. White
  Executive Vice President and Chief People Officer
  Lumen Technologies 
  
• Xiujuan “Eva” Zhao, PhD
  Academician, Management Science

Executive Committee

• Patrick J. Callans
  Chair
• Jason Oliver
  Vice Chair
• Eduardo M. Peñalver
  President
• Mary Petersen
  Corporation Secretary
• Russell Hagen
  (At-Large)
• Arturo Araujo, S.J.
  (At-Large)
• Melvin Flowers
  (At-Large)
• Maureen Brotherton
  (At-Large)

Trustees Emeriti

• Anne V. Farrell
  Seattle, WA
• John W. Meisenbach
  MCM, A Meisenbach Company
  Seattle, WA
• James D. Sinegal
  Co-Founder & Director
  Costco Wholesale
  Issaquah, WA 
• Ann Wyckoff
  Seattle, WA

Committees

• Academic and Student Affairs Committee
• Audit and Risk Committee
• Capital Planning and Land Use
• Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Committee
• Finance Committee
• Intercollegiate Athletic Oversight Committee
• Investment Committee
• Mission Integration Committee
• Strategy, Innovation and Technology
• Trusteeship Committee
• Advancement Committee