Clare Petrich

  Chair of the Board of Directors

Ms. Petrich was elected to the Port Commission in November 1995 and took office in January 1996. She is currently the president of the Port Commission.

She graduated from Manhattanville College, Purchase, New York, and earned a master's degree in education from the University of Virginia. Before she began managing Petrich Marine Dock, a marina and manufacturing facility on Tacoma's Thea Foss Waterway, she lived for several years in Africa and Asia.

Ms. Petrich is a co-founder and the current chair of the Commencement Bay Maritime Fest and serves on the board of directors of the World Trade Center Tacoma, the Washington Council on International Trade, the Tacoma-Pierce County Convention and Visitor Bureau, the Economic Development Board for Tacoma-Pierce County and the Central Puget Sound Economic Development District.

In her spare time, Ms. Petrich is an avid Dragon Boat paddler.