King County Executive Office Girmay Zahilay announced on Tuesday that Hyeok Kim will serve as Chief Operating Officer.
“She will play a vital role on my senior leadership team and is responsible for directing and supporting day-to-day operations across all King County Cabinet agencies,” Zahilay said.
Kim served as deputy mayor for the City of Seattle from 2014 – 2017 — the first Asian American woman to hold such a role in the city’s history.
Before that, she was the executive director of InterimCDA, she also worked for nine years in the Washington State Legislature, and she was a former Commissioner on President Barack Obama’s Advisory Commission on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders.
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