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 second Wednesday 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
was appointed to the board in 2003. Commissioner Holland Young is the former executive director of the Puget Sound Labor Agency, AFL-CIO, retiring in 2009. She spent more than 30 years in union work, 14 as president of UFCW 1182. She was elected vice president of the King County Labor Council, AFL-CIO in 1990 and then elected president of that organization in 1997, retiring in 2009. Holland Young was the Labor Chair of the United Way of King County board from 1997 to 2007 and served as a member of the 2002-2006 campaign cabinets for United Way and the King/Snohomish County Joint Exploration Committee. She also served on the board of the Red Cross of King County and the board of the Renton Technical College Foundation. She is a member of the national Emergency Grant State Advisory Board and chaired the Greater Puget Sound Union Community Fund. Commissioner Holland Young is a graduate of Western Washington University and attended the University of Washington for post-graduate work.
Doug Barnes
was appointed to the board in 2010. A graduate of Oregon State University, with a Master of Business Administration from the University of Washington, Barnes has worked for nearly three decades in all facets of real estate development. Currently, he’s a principal of Resource Transition Consultants, LLC, a firm that focuses on distressed property receivership services including acquisition, management, and disposition to qualified buyers. Prior to co-founding the firm in 2009, he worked as an executive at Centex Homes – one of the nation’s leading home building companies – ending his tenure there as Northern Pacific Division president. He also spent nearly a decade as a principal-residential development for Seattle-based Intracorp Real Estate.
Michael Brown
was appointed to the board in 2009. A graduate of Loyola University, with a Master of Public Administration degree from the University of Washington, Michael Brown has worked to improve the lives of the region’s poor. Currently, Brown is the vice president of community leadership for The Seattle Foundation, where he oversees grant making and leadership work. Prior to The Seattle Foundation, he served as a legislative aide to Seattle City Councilmember Richard McIver and as the deputy director of the Washington Association for Community Economic Development, a nonprofit that provided training and technical assistance to community-based development organizations statewide. Brown is a former chair and current member of the board of directors of Impact Capital, vice president for Building Changes (formerly AIDS Housing of Washington) and a board member of the Washington State Budget and Policy Center. He also serves on the Interagency Committee of the Committee to End Homelessness in King County and as an advisory board member for Neighbor to Neighbor and United Way’s Seattle Community Council. Michael is an American Marshall Memorial Fellow and a graduate of Leadership Tomorrow.
Terry McLlarky
was appointed to the board in 2010. He also has served on KCHA’s Resident Advisory Committee since 2005. He is a resident of a public housing complex in Kirkland for seniors and persons with disabilities. Prior to moving there in 2003, McLlarky was an active civic volunteer from 1995 to 2002 in the Town of Hudson, N.H., where he served on the sewer utility, conservation, and budget committees. He graduated cum laude from New Hampshire College, now called Southern New Hampshire University, and is retired from careers in material control and management information systems.
Richard E. Mitchell
was appointed to the board in 2010. He is a partner at Summit Law Group, PLLC, where he represents public and private entities on a range of state, local, and municipal issues and on real estate, land use, and construction matters. Mitchell’s legal career began at Bogle & Gates, PLLC. He also previously worked at the law firm of Dorsey & Whitney, LLP, and served as general counsel to Gov. Chris Gregoire from January 2005 to December 2008. In addition to law, Mitchell also has degrees in architecture and urban planning and has had a wide-ranging career in which housing, land use, and the needs of the poor have played a strong and interlocking role. Appointed by the Washington State Supreme Court, Mitchell currently is a member of the Board of Trustees for the Legal Foundation of Washington.He also serves on the Seattle University Board of Regents, the Syracuse University College of Law Alumni Board, and was recently elected to the position of second vice president of the King County Bar Association. He also previously served on the boards of the Low Income Housing Network and Environmental Works, nonprofit organizations that advocate for housing and provide architecture and planning services to low-income community groups throughout the Pacific Northwest.
Stephen Norman, Executive Director
Mr. Norman has an extensive background in the design, financing, development, and operation of service-enriched and affordable housing and previously served as an Assistant Housing Commissioner for the City of New York. Subsequently, he was the founding National Vice President of the Corporation for Supportive Housing, where he established CSH’s program operations and worked around the country with local governments, foundations and nonprofits to develop supportive housing for homeless and special-needs populations. He currently serves on CSH's board. Mr. Norman held an appointment as Loeb Fellow at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design in 1985 – 86. He also serves on the boards of the Council of Large Public Housing Authorities, and Building Changes, formerly AIDS Housing of Washington, and co-chairs the King County Interagency Council on Homelessness.