Hindsight is 20/20:Perspectives on Leadership

Moderator: Phil KeislingOregon Governor Ted Kulongoski

Washington Governor Chris Gregoire

Moderator: Phil Keisling

Current Position? Director, Center for Public Service

Mark O. Hatfield School of Government, Portland State University

Education? BA – Yale University | American StudiesFirst Job You Ever Had? Picking strawberries at 11 in the fields

of Washington County! First "non-cash, by the books job" (that

is, they deducted FICA taxes!) was working for Valley Lanes Bowling Alley in Beaverton.

What Book Are You Currently Reading? "A Time for Everything" by Karl Ove

KnausgaardThis Artist/Band Would Be On The Soundtrack To My Life: Jack Bruce, and his bandmates Eric

Clapton and Ginger Baker of Cream, a late 1960s British band

Governor Christine GregoireCurrent Position? RetiredEducation? BA - University of Washington,JD - Gonzaga UniversityFirst Job? Blueberry Patch stand manager -

Auburn, WAWhat Book Are You Currently Reading? Lean InThis Artist/Band Would Be On The Soundtrack To My Life: Fleetwood MacWords I Live By: "My fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country."  - John F. Kennedy  (1917-1963)

Governor Ted Kulongoski

Current Position?• Distinguished Fellow of Policy and Politics at

the Mark O. Hatfield School of Government, Portland State University.

Education? BA - University of Missouri JD – University of Missouri

Background?• Born in rural Missouri in 1940 and grew up in

St. Louis in a Catholic boys’ home.

• After graduating from high school, he enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps.

• After completing his military service, he spent a few years as a truck driver and a bricklayer in a steel mill.

Interesting Fact:• First Oregon governor to serve in all three

branches of government.

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