Anne Shermack Blair is a thirty-five year resident of Bainbridge Island. She has more than thirty years' experience as a professional nonprofit manager and executive director, and is a long-time community activist concerned with good government, effective voluntarism and environmental issues. A founding board member of Leadership Kitsap and the Puget Sound Restoration Fund, her background also includes volunteer leadership on local, regional and national boards and commissions as diverse as Children's Hospital and Regional Medical Center, Olympic College, National Faculty of Arts and Sciences, National Fish and Wildlife Foundation Community Salmon Recovery Technical Review, Kitsap Community Foundation, Junior League of Seattle and International Association of Junior Leagues, Bainbridge Library and Bainbridge Island Arts and Humanities Council. In addition, she served on the City of Bainbridge Island Salary Commission from 2004 until June 2011. She is the recipient of the Mary Maxwell Gates Community Leadership Award and was elected to the Olympic College Hall of Fame in 1998.

 

A Colorado native, Anne graduated from the University of Washington and is married to Wayne Blair. She and Wayne are the parents of three adult children and grandparents to ten. She relishes her current focus on local government work and community service with the Bainbridge Island City Council.

 

 

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