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Oct. 17, 2007
Contact: Bob Adams
(425) 564-3081
badams@bcc.ctc.edu
Vicki Orrico named to
BCC Board
of Trustees
BELLEVUE, WASH. -- Washington Gov. Christine Gregoire has
appointed Vicki E. Orrico, of Bellevue, to a five-year term
on the Bellevue Community College Board of Trustees.
Orrico has been practicing law for over 20 years, focusing on general business,
real estate and municipal law.
Quite active in the community, Orrico serves on the Bellevue Planning Commission
as well as the Overlake Hospital Foundation Board of Trustees, for which she
chairs the Donor Development Committee.
She also serves on the Board
of the Center for Women and Democracy and chairs their speakers forum, called “Food
for Thought,” on women’s issues.
Orrico was honored with the Washington State Bar Association’s Young Lawyers
Division Exemplary Service Award in 1998.
She earned juris doctor and bachelor’s degrees from the University of Wisconsin.
Orrico replaces Ruthann Kurose, who has retired from BCC’s Board of Trustees
after 14 years of service.
Serving 35,000 students annually, Bellevue Community College is the state’s
third largest educational institution. BCC offers transfer study (the first
two years of a bachelor’s degree); work-related programs in information technology,
health sciences and many other fields; adult basic education and English as
a Second Language training; and a Bachelor of Applied Science in Radiation and
Imaging Sciences. BCC’s Continuing Education division offers programs in computing,
numerous work-related topics, art, travel, languages and personal enrichment,
as well as business contract training and small business development.
Visit BCC on the web at www.bellevuecollege.edu.
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