Commissioners
All powers of the Authority are vested in a five-member
Board of Commissioners appointed for five-year terms by the King County
Executive and confirmed by the Metropolitan King County Council. The
Authority’s commissioners are not compensated for their service.
The Board meets at 8:30 a.m. the third Monday of every month at KCHA's Administrative Offices, 600 Andover Park W., Tukwila, unless there is cause to convene a special Board meeting.
Nancy Holland-Young, Chair
is executive director of the King County Labor Agency, AFL-CIO and was appointed to the Board in 2003. Commissioner Holland-Young has spent more than 20 years in union work, 14 of those serving as president of UFCW 1182. She was elected president of the King County Labor Council, AFL-CIO in October of 1997 and continues to serve in that position. She also is the Labor Chair and serves on the board of United Way of King County, as a member of both the 2002-2003 campaign cabinet for United Way and the King/Snohomish County Joint Exploration Committee. She also serves on the board of the Renton Technical College Foundation, is a member of the national Emergency Grant State Advisory Board and chairs the Greater Puget Sound Union Community Fund. Commissioner Holland-Young is a graduate of Western Washington University.
Delores Brown, Vice-Chair
was appointed by the King County Executive to the Board in 2003. She previously had served on KCHA’s Resident Advisory Board for more than a year. She is a resident at Valli Kee apartments and her interests include opera and classical music. Commissioner Brown is active in supporting the Valli Kee Somali community by working as a mentor for middle-school youth and volunteers at community events in the Somalian communities. She attended the University of Michigan, where she studied business administration.
Debra Coates
was appointed to the Board in 1999. She is currently the director of retail real estate/construction for T-Mobile. Previously, she was the vice president of Washington Mutual Bank consumer real estate services. She also has served as vice president of the Economic Development Council of King County. Commissioner Coates has extensive experience as a commercial real estate broker in King County. She has actively participated in numerous civic organizations including service on the board of directors of the Federal Way Chamber of Commerce and the Boys & Girls Club.
Doreen Marchione
was appointed to the Board in 2008. She recently retired after 15 years as President/CEO of Hopelink, a community action agency that offers a variety of services from housing to child care and transportation to help low-income families, children, seniors and people with disabilities build towards self-sufficiency. Before joining Hopelink, Commissioner Marchione served as the mayor of Redmond, Wash. for eight years and on the Redmond City Council for four years. Currently, she also serves on the boards of the Kirkland Performance Center, the Washington State Transportation Improvement Board and the steering committee for the Gates Foundation Sound Families Initiative. She has received a number of prestigious honors including the Municipal League’s Outstanding Elected Official Award, the Leadership Legacy Award from the Center for Ethical Leadership and the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Redmond Chamber of Commerce.
Peter Orser
is president of the Quadrant Corporation, the largest home builder in the Puget Sound region. Appointed to the Board in 2001, Commissioner Orser is active in the community as a past member of the Mercer Island City Council and board member of the Housing Resources Group and the Cascade Land Conservancy. He obtained an undergraduate degree in Natural Science and Chemistry from the University of Puget Sound and a master’s degree in urban planning from the University of Washington.
Stephen Norman, Executive Director