Former Seattle Mayor Norm Rice has been announced as the Keynote Speaker at the Westside Awards Breakfast presented by the West Seattle Chamber of Commerce May 4.

The breakfast honors local West Seattle people and businesses for their contributions to the community.
You can register HERE for the event at Saltys on Alki.

Mayor Rice was Seattle's mayor from 1989 and was re-elected in 1993. During the technology boom of the 1990s, Rice led the rejuvenation of Seattle's downtown.[1] He also served as President of the U.S. Conference of Mayors.

In 1995, Rice served as a committee member for the Rudy Bruner Award for Urban Excellence.

In 1996, Rice ran in the Democratic primary for Governor of Washington, but lost to then-King County Executive Gary Locke.

Rice was chosen as CEO and then president of the Federal Home Loan Bank of Seattle from 1998 to 2004.

Rice is serving a three-year term as a Distinguished Practitioner-in-Residence at the University of Washington’s Daniel J. Evans School of Public Affairs and leads the project Civic Engagement in the 21st Century.

In June 2009, Rice was named CEO of the non-profit Seattle Foundation. In December 2010, he was nominated as one of 30 members for a two-year appointment in the White House Council for Community Solutions, created by Executive Order of President Barack Obama.