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Mr. Locke served as the 21st Governor of Washington State from 1997 to 2005, the first Chinese American Governor in U.S. history. From 1994 to 1997 he served as the chief executive of King County in Washington State. He was elected to the Washington State House of Representatives in 1982, where he served on the House Judiciary and Appropriations Committees, in his final five years as chair of the House Appropriations Committee. Mr. Locke has been a partner at the Seattle law firm of Davis Wright Tremaine LLP, since February, 2005.
As governor, Gary worked to make Washington a better place to live, work and raise a family by dramatically raising academic achievement in the public schools; strengthening the state's economy, improving transportation, expanding health care to vulnerable children and adults, and making the state government more accessible and user-friendly.
Gary's organizational and managerial accomplishments have been recognized by Governing Magazine, which named Washington one of America's five best-managed states. He has earned other accolades from the Harvard Innovations in Government program and the Digital State Government program.
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