External Advisory Committee
The department’s external advisory committee, created by the Legislature in 1963, consists of eight members, representing major constituencies. Its role is to consult, review, and evaluate policies, budgets, activities, and programs of the department as they relate to workplace health in the broadest sense. Current members are:
- Judy Schurke
- Director, Washington State Department of Labor and Industries
- Mary Selecky
- Secretary, Washington State Department of Health (represented by Gregg Grunenfelder, assistant secretary, Division of Environmental Health)
- Rick Bender
- President, Washington State Labor Council (represented by Al Link, secretary-treasurer)
- Don Brunell
- President, Association of Washington Business (represented by Grant Nelson, Governmental Affairs Director)
- Patricia Wahl
- Dean, University of Washington School of Public Health and Community Medicine
- Matthew O’Donnell
- Dean, University of Washington School of Engineering (represented by Richard Storch, director, Department of Industrial Engineering)
- W. Hugh Maloney
- President, Washington State Medical Association (represented by Timothy Gilmore)
- David Kalman
- Chair, University of Washington Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences (nonvoting member)
