The Bellevue College Board of Trustees has approved a 15-member Presidential Search Advisory Committee. Trustee Marie Gunn will chair the group, with Trustee Steve Miller serving as vice chair.

Seven members are college employees: Doug Brown, faculty association president; Jennifer Prekeges, chair of the Nuclear Medicine Technology program; Jennifer Stanton, English instructor; Robert Herbruger, control technician; Tom Nielsen, vice president of instruction; Glenn Jackson, manager of the Career Exploration program; and Brandon Anderson, associated student government president. Bill Kent, president of the Bellevue College Foundation, is also a member of the committee.

Community members participating on the Search Advisory Committee are: Gary Plano, superintendent of Mercer Island Public Schools; Ross Hunter, 48th District representative; Kristin Rhodes, west regional general manager of Microsoft; Sheila Edwards Lange, vice president of minority affairs and vice provost for diversity at the University of Washington; Fred Kiga, Amazon; Earl W. Overstreet II, past chairman of Bellevue Chamber of Commerce; and Ava Frisinger, mayor of Issaquah.

The executive search firm of Greenwood/Asher is conducting the search process for the college. The Bellevue College interim president is Laura Saunders. More information, and an opportunity for the public to give input, is at http://depts.bellevuecollege.edu/presidentsearch/