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Diana Gale is currently the Chair of the Washington State Public Works Board, which biennially gives local governments more than $300 million in loans for infrastructure upgrades and repair. She is also a senior lecturer emeritus at the Daniel J. Evans School of Public Affairs. She is the former Managing Director of Seattle Public Utilities and the City of Seattle Office of Management and Budget. She became the first Director of Seattle Public Utilities when the department was created in 1997 and was responsible for all aspects of Seattle's utilities including water, sewer, drainage, solid waste, engineering services and utilities customer services. Previously, Diana served as the Superintendent of the Seattle Water Department for the regional area delivering water services to 1.2 million people. As budget director, she initiated a biennial budget process, which resulted in the first-ever two-year budget for the City of Seattle, as well as a strategic capital investment plan and an innovative program of quality management and performance measurement. Before working as budget director, she was Director of the Solid Waste Utility and executive director of the Legislative Department. As director of Solid Waste, she initiated the nationally renowned recycling and composting programs which led Seattle to a 44% recycling rate.
Diana has extensive community involvement work in the arts and the environment. She has recently been on the Boards of the Seattle Opera, the Seattle Chamber Music Festival, Long Live The Kings (a salmon restoration organization), the National Water Research Institute (NWRI), the American Municipal Water Association (AMWA), and the International Water Management Council. Diana has a BA from Wellesley College and completed Master’s and Doctoral Degrees in Urban Planning from the University of Washington.
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