Colonel, after serving on active duty as an optometrist during the Vietnam and first Persian Gulf wars. References External links Washington State Office of the Insurance Commissioner |- |- 1943 births Washington (state) Insurance Commissioners American optometrists Democratic Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Washington (state) Living people Democratic Party members of the Washington House of Representatives Pacific University alumni People from Lacey, Washington School board members in Washington (state) UCLA School of Public Health alumni United States Army reservists United States Department of Health and Human Services officials Democratic Party Washington (state) state senators