Former Bellevue mayor Chuck Mosher has been appointed to the Eastern Washington Growth Management Hearings Board by Gov. Chris Gregoire. Mosher has over four decades of federal, state, and local governmental management, policy, and planning experience.

Mosher served on the Bellevue Planning Commission for six years, the Bellevue City Council for eight years, and was mayor of Bellevue. He also served on the Executive and Growth Management Committees of the Puget Sound Regional Council, on the Sound Transit Board, as Chair of the Cascade Water Alliance, as the Coordinator of the Tri-County Salmon Recovery Coalition, and on regional and statewide committees working on salmon recovery.

As president of the Association of Washington Cities, he worked with cities throughout the state on numerous issues, including growth management and planning. He also served the state as chair of the Washington State Citizens’ Committee on Pipeline Safety.

In Eastern Washington, Mosher served on the State Shoreline Hearings Board, the Douglas County Boundary Review Board, and represented county citizens on a Douglas County Shoreline Master Program update committee. He was also a consultant and facilitator for a Trust for Public Lands comprehensive land use study of the Wenatchee River Valley.

From 1965 to 1993, Mosher was an audit manager with the U.S. General Accountability Office, working for Congress on nationwide reviews of federal energy, environment, and natural resource programs. He is also a past Washington state and national president of the American Water Resources Association.

Mosher has a Bachelor of Science Degree in Business and Technology from Oregon State University (1965) and a Master of Business Administration Degree in Management from Portland State University (1972).

He was born and raised in Portland, OR, moved to Hawaii and worked throughout Asia with the GAO for two years and lived in Bellevue for 32 years. He and his wife Betty have lived in East Wenatchee since 2003.