Bill Derry

Has served as PAS Vice President since April 2021.

Education: B.S. Forest Resources, University of Washington. Summer field work laying out and documenting vegetation transects and plotting old-growth cedar stands in Washington.

Master of Forest Resources, University of Washington. Thesis: An Interpretive Plan for Hungry Horse Dam and Reservoir in Montana.

Career: Early career in park planning and writing Environmental Impact Statements (10 years). Started and managed the Snohomish County Surface Water Management Division (9 years). Watershed plans, stormwater regulations, lake restoration, flood management plans, salmon habitat planning and restoration.

Vice President, CH2MHILL. Provided consulting for local and state governments in watershed planning, stormwater utility creation and planning, stormwater design and low impact development design manuals (18 years). Provided training to local governments on the Department of Ecology’s stormwater design manual.

Professional Activities: Early in career served as Vice President and Program Committee Chair for the Bighorn Audubon Society in Sheridan, Wyoming. Taught a 2-hour class in ornithology at the local community college in Sheridan.

Taught geology at Edmonds Community College for four years.

Served on the Shorelines Hearings Board for two years.

Helped draft the stormwater sections of the original Puget Sound Plan.

Created and co-chaired the American Public Works Association Stormwater Managers Committee in Washington State (20 years). Received APWA award for technical excellence.

Helped create and served on the Board for the Center for Urban Water Resources Center at the University of Washington. This Center conducted and published the best and most important research in the nation on the effects of urbanization on streams, watersheds, salmon habitat and water quality.

Frequent presentations at regional and national professional conferences on stormwater, erosion control, salmon habitat protection and restoration, low-impact development and smart growth.

Served on the Board of Directors for People for Puget Sound for six years. Board Chair and corporation President for three years.

Personal: Married to Barbara Derry, three grown sons, lives in Edmonds, retired. Skis, plays soccer (youth coach 20 years). The Bill Derry Band performs rock music for dances, weddings, and parties. Bill performs solo music (guitar and vocals) for restaurants, parties, wineries, and bars. Writes and records music in home studio.

Jamie Parrott Adkins

Has served as PAS Secretary since October 2020.

Jamie earned her BS in Marine Biology during her four years between the University of Hawaii and Macquarie University in Sydney, AUS. Following her undergraduate degree, she spent several years in the non-profit sector as an exotic animal keeper/trainer and diver. Jamie received her MBA from Pepperdine’s Graziadio School of Business and Management and also spent part of 2010 specializing in marketing and negotiations at Pepperdine’s partner business school, UCD’s Michael Smurfit School of Business (Dublin, IRE). 

For the past 10 years, Jamie has overseen the growth and development of a national medical group purchasing organization. As the Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of MedResults, she manages more than 40 vendor partnerships and purchasing contracts for 3,300 aesthetic medical member practices nationwide.

Jamie is the former President and Chair of the Board of Directors for The Lily Sanctuary, a SoCal-based non-profit parrot sanctuary and previously served as Vice President on the Board of Directors for MBA Women Los Angeles chapter. Jamie is also a member of American Mensa, Mensa International and an active member of Pepperdine’s Alumni Network. Jamie and her family have long been supporters of the Audubon Society and she hopes further her passion for wildlife and the environment through PAS.