Years of Service Award

The university honors staff and faculty for their years of service. Employees receive a service award for every five years of employment. The employment milestones recognized are 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 35, and 40(+) years. Employee awards include a Years of Service milestone pin for each milestone (5+), and milestones of 10+ receive a gift certificate to the AS Bookstore.

The following employees are eligible to receive a service year award:

  • Permanent classified employees
  • Permanent professional staff
  • Executive Officers
  • Permanent tenure-track and tenured faculty
  • Non-tenure track faculty with an active job during the current academic year (not including rehired retirees)

Length of service consists of employment since the first day worked. Should you have questions regarding your years of service, please contact HR@wwu.edu.

Year of Service pin

2023 Employees Celebrating 5 Years of Service

Jeanine Amacher
Jennifer Anable
Chad Baloy
Justice Banson
Ying Bao
Molly Baumann
Megan Bennett
Steve Bennett
Don Bergler
Alexis Blue
Brick Bundy
Teena Burdette
Annie Byers
Vanessa Daines
Thien Dao
Brianna Delker
Kevin Delucio
Wesley Deneke
Marie Deschene
Jennifer DeVange
Sukhi Dhillon
Dimitri Diamanti
Anna Diedesch
Craig Dienberg
Tania Douglas
Louis Dupree
Sidney Dutra Mesquita
Alex Egner
Nada Elia
Damien Fisher
Wing Fok
Morgan Freed
Yanara Friedland
Cristina Garcia Lasanta
Carly Gerard
John Gialanella
Donna Gibbs
Sheryl Gilmore
Dianna Godbolt
Michael Gonzales
Annie Gort
Lourdes Gutierrez Najera
Douglas Hamilton

Debi Hanuscin
Qiang Hao
Megan Havens
Nini Hayes
Karl Heinz
Darcie Hill
Rebecca Hill
Benjamin Hoekstra
Sean Houck
Melynda Huskey
Jacob Joens-Poulton
Benjamin Kaas
Keith Kelley
Madeline Kelly
Kali Kula
Susan LaFave
Guylaine Lalonde
Chuck Lanham
Thanh Le
Ian Levings
Shuo Li
Nathan Long
Lindsey MacDonald
Darius Martin
R. Mata
Tyler Maxwell
Scott Maystadt
Sarah McCully
Gena Mikkelsen
Summer Mitchell
Keith Negley
Mark Nicasio
Abe Olson
Melissa Oscarson
Amber Pacifico
Sally Parsons
Amethyst Paulson
Sarah Pearson
Mindy Pelton
Duane Penner
Aleksandr Pentsak
Roman Pentsak

Maria Perez de Henderson
Daryn Pettersen
Nhung Pham
Ramadha Piyadi Gamage
Andrew Rans
Chris Remick
Stephanie Richey
Cora Ridley
Janette Rosebrook
Nara Samuels
Katrina Schuster
Christie Scollon
Imran Sheikh
Myron Shekelle
Michael Shepard
Ely Shipley
Douglas Sladen
Mariana Smit Vega Garcia
Aaron Smith
Candice Styer
Kyla Sweet
Michael Taylor
Glen Tobosa
Thomas Trebacz
Manh Truong
Michael Tsikerdekis
Jan Tucker
Christopher Van Allen
Ryan Walker
Adrienne Wang
Mike Warren
Alena Washburn
Nick Washburn
Kitri Waterman
Jordan Watson
Katie Weed
Keith Williams
Jane Wong
Julian Wu
Sarah Zarrow
Shelby Zimmerman
Matthew Zinkgraf

2023 Employees Celebrating 10 Years of Service

Paula Airth
Colin Amos
John Antos
Blanca Aranda
Shawn Arellano
Melinda Assink
Kris Baldridge
AJ Barse
David Bass
Suzanne Blais
Patty Bourne
Max Bronsema
Hope Corbin
Holly Diaz
Burak Dolar
Rob Eis
Emily Flarry
Brennan Gilbert
Byron Gouette
Jennifer Green
Mark Greenberg
Teri Hall
Colin Hanson
Ben Harvey

Lisa Heidorn
Cory Herman
Michael Hernandez
Elissa Hicks
Steve Hollenhorst
Monica Holmer
Brian Hutchinson
Leonard Jones
Rose Kawczynski
Paul Kearsley
Linda Keeler
Robin Kodner
Ellen Kuhlmann
Madoka Kusakabe
Jamie Lawson
T. Abe Lloyd
Christopher Loar
Douglas Loewen
Ann Renee Mann
Josie Melton
Chris Miller
Pat Nelson
Angeline Ocampo
Mark Okinaka

Dana Ollestad
Molly Paterson
Charles Patterson
Sheila Pennell
Shawni Portillo
Luis Portugal
Skylar Powell
Darin Rasmussen
Lynae Rickman
Hope Rindal
Kirk Robbins
Hilary Schwandt
Mary Seaton
Todd Smith
Emily Spracklin
Devlin Sweeney
Tori Talkington
Shevell Thibou
Stacey Turrell
Dong Vo
Molly Vogel
Hla Win
Siyamak Zabihi-Moghaddam
Sarah Zimmerman

2023 Employees Celebrating 15 Years of Service

Amy Anderson
Juliet Barnes
Kendra Bradford
Jayson Christopherson
Michele Clarke
Heather Cochran
Paula Dagnon
Lori Daniels
Andie Date
Joanne DeMark
Kaimi Erbe
Holly Folk
Kristen French
Marc Fromm
Mary Gallagher
Eric Grimstead
Mary Hall
John Hanneman
Jessica Heidemann
Kelly Jantzen

Farrokh Kahnamoui
Jennifer Keller
Jeff King
Karl Klokkevold
Rozlind Koester
Tina Lopez
Ed Love
Chase Macomber
Doug Malquist
Sunday McCarty
Simon McGuire
Kate McLean
Liz Mogford
Cindy Monger
Ronald Oertel
Brady Olson
Rebekah Paci-Green
Maafala Petaia
Dawn Preus

Daniel Purdy
Lysa Rivera
Jordan Sandoval
Amites Sarkar
Jennifer Seltz
Jose Serrano-Moreno
P. Clint Spiegel
Paul Stangl
Elizabeth Stephan
James Suh
Colleen van Pelt
Molly Ware
Mark Weathers
Kathryn Weld
Jane Weston
Dennis Whitcomb
Wes Wilkinson
Karen Yackley
James Yates

2023 Employees Celebrating 20 Years of Service

Alejandro Acevedo-Gutierrez
Ron Arnold
Andrew Boudreaux
Bruce Boyer
Nicole Brown
Richard Bruce
Don Burgess
Paul Chen
Frederick Collins
Tim Fitzpatrick
Geri Forsberg
June Fraser Thistle
Jeanne Gaffney

Cecile Hanania
Stella Hua
Keith Hyatt
Stacy Jenkins
Butch Kamena
Rod Koenig
Huan Le
Krista Mantello
Dina Murphy
Sean Murphy
Maria Paredes Mendez
Kimberly Peters

Hong Pham
Tony Prichard
LeAnne Robinson
Julia Sapin
Takele Seda
Amy Sedovic
Steve Smith
Audrey Taylor
Gerry Vermeulen
Grace Wang
Julie Weisgerber
Nicholas Wonder

2023 Employees Celebrating 25 Years of Service

Spencer Anthony-Cahill
Mark Bagley
Ronna Biggs
Anne Blanchard
Christina Byrne
Amy Carbajal
Cristina de Almeida
Susan DeBari
Juanito Delarosa
Tony Dominguez
Nicole Hoekstra
Bernard Housen
Cara Jaye

Brad Johnson
Teresita Julia
Michael Karlberg
Jim Kelly
Dave Knutson
Todd Koetje
Roberto Lim
Jessica Lindsay
Janet Mock
Craig Moyer
Thanh Nguyen
Merrill Peterson
Chris Powell

Wayne Robertson
Matthew Roelofs
Greg Schwartz
Lesley Sommer
Beth Stickley
Stan Tag
Sylvia Tag
Massimiliano Tomasi
James Vyvyan
Tyson Waldo
Kelley Walker
Charles Wandler

2023 Employees Celebrating 30 Years of Service

Bruce Beasley
Dolor Delarosa
Peter Diehl
Dawn Dietrich
Lena Ericksen
Barbara Farrand
Chris Friday
Marc Geisler
Jeffrey Gilliam
David Holmwood

Frances Howard-Snyder
Hud Hudson
Linda Luttrell
Lee McClain
Mary Anne Rangel-Guerrero
Ren Schreuder
Mart Stewart
Suzanne Strom
Wendy Walker

2023 Employees Celebrating 35 Years of Service

Patrick Buckley
Branko Curgus
Phil Nelson
Mark Springer
Pamela Whalley
Tjalling Ypma

2023 Employees Celebrating 40 Years of Service

David Nelson