Commissioners

Bill Hanson

Bill Hanson has 31 years of law enforcement experience; serving as president and vice president of the Washington State troopers association; detective with the narcotics division and a trooper assigned to Seattle, Everett and Olympia. Hanson is also a U.S. Coastguard combat veteran having served in Vietnam.  Hanson served as executive director of the Washington Council of Police and Sheriffs.  He was appointed to the Lottery Commission on June 6, 2005 and named Lottery Director by the Governor five years later.

Valoria Loveland - Tri-Cities

Ms. Loveland has spent a lifetime in public service.  She was appointed to serve on the Washington State Public Disclosure Commission and served as Chair in 1981.  Over the course of a 25 year career serving the citizens of Washington State, Ms. Loveland as served on the Tri-Cities Diversification Board and Nuclear Waste Advisory Council.

She was elected as President of Washington State County Treasurer's Association and served as President of Washington State County Officials.  She also served as Director on the Board of Directors of the National Association of County Treasurers and Finance Officers and was elected Washington State Senator  in 1992; serving until 2000.

She was appointed Director of Washington State Department of Agriculture by former Governor Gary Locke and served the agency from 2002 to 2008.  She currently serves as a member of the advisory council to Washington State University-Tri-Cities, a Board member of Tri-Cities Economic Development Council and Board member TVW, the state’s public affairs television network.   Valoria Loveland appointed by Governor Christine Gregoire to the Washington Lottery Commisson in 2009.

Brian L. Comstock - Seattle

Brian L. Comstock graduated from the University of Washington magna cum laude with top honors in political science and election to Phi Beta Kappa. Following a two-year tour of duty as an officer in the U.S. Army Counter-Intelligence Corps, Brian attended Harvard Law obtaining his law degree in 1959. He has practiced law in Seattle continuously since then, becoming a senior partner and managing partner of the law firm of Roberts & Shefelman which merged in 1987 to become Foster Pepper & Shefelman. In 1990, Brian joined Short Cressman & Burgess as a partner and chair of the firm’s business practice group. Retiring as a partner of that firm in 2003, Brian was appointed Adjunct Professor at Seattle University School of Law and also Albers School of Business and Finance. At the law school, he put together a new course and wrote a new textbook entitled Advising Private Companies. Brian has been active in professional organizations and pursuits including the business, securities and tax sections of the American Bar Association and Washington State Bar Association, and he has served as a Trustee of the Seattle-King County Bar Association. He is a member of Seattle Rotary and a Board member of Northwest Center and the South Seattle Community College Foundation.

Brian’s practice has over the years has emphasized business. His areas of extensive experience include corporate law, business planning, assisting with financings and securities compliance, federal, state and local taxation including several appeals to the Washington State Supreme Court, advising businesses in distress and handling workouts, real estate and commercial transactions, and sales and dispositions of businesses.

Ann Ryherd - Olympia

Prior to her retirement in April 2010, Ann had a long and distinguished career in Washington state government, including serving as Vice President for Finance and Administration at The Evergreen State College, Director of the Office of Financial Management, Assistant State Treasurer, and twice serving as Executive Director of the Higher Education Coordinating Board (1989-1993 and 2007-2010). In addition, Ann served as Executive Director of Washington Learns, Governor Gregoire’s 18-month comprehensive study of early learning, K-12 and higher education in Washington, which issued a final report in November 2006.

Ann previously served as a member and chair of the Pollution Control Hearings Board and the Shoreline Hearings Board, and as a member of the University of Washington Board of Regents. She has also held staff positions in the Washington State House of Representatives, the Washington State Senate and the United States Senate. From 2001 to 2009, Ann served as a member of the Board of Trustees for Group Health Cooperative.

She has an undergraduate degree from Whittier College and a graduate degree in political science from the University of California at Los Angeles. She also completed a program for senior executives in state and local government at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University.

She and her husband, Mike, reside in Olympia.

Judy Guenther - Chehalis

Judy was born and raised in Washington and has lived most of her life in Lewis County. She currently resides in Chehalis with her husband Bob and they have two adult children and 5 grandchildren.

She was appointed to the Centralia Community College Board of Trustees in 1995 and served until 2011. She was active at state and the national level from president of the state trustee association to the boards of ACCT. She has been active in the United Way of Lewis County since 1994. She is also involved in Crime Stoppers of Lewis County since 1995 and served as the chair for the past 10 years.

She believes that if you want change you have to be involved. All any of us want to do is know we helped make a difference.