• Eric Liu, president
• Michael Parham, vice president
• Marie McCaffrey
• Jane Noland
• End of list

Eric Liu was appointed to the Library Board by Mayor Greg Nickels in April 2002 and reappointed in June 2007. Liu is the author of "Guiding Lights: How to Mentor - and Find Life's Purpose," the official book of National Mentoring Month. He also is the author of "The Accidental Asian: Notes of a Native Speaker," a New York Times Notable Book featured in the PBS documentary "Matters of Race," and he edited the Norton anthology "Next: Young American Writers on the New Generation." Liu served as a speechwriter for President Bill Clinton in the first term and as White House deputy domestic policy adviser in the second term. After the White House, he was an executive at the digital media company RealNetworks. He also has been a frequent commentator on CNN, MSNBC and CNBC. In 2002, Liu was named by the World Economic Forum as one of the 100 Global Leaders of Tomorrow. He teaches at the University of Washington's Evans School of Public Affairs and hosts a television interview program called "Seattle Voices." In addition to organizing annual Guiding Lights mentoring weekends, Liu speaks regularly at conferences, corporations and campuses around the country. He also serves on the boards of numerous civic organizations, including the Washington State Board of Education, Demos, and the League of Education Voters. He also is the son of a former public librarian.

Michael Parham was appointed to the Library Board in May 2005 by Mayor Greg Nickels. Parham joined the legal department at RealNetworks in 2000. He is responsible for the negotiation of technology licensing agreements. He also provides legal counsel to senior management at RealNetworks on human resource matters as well as community and governmental affairs. Prior to joining RealNetworks, Parham was the Regional Counsel with IBM in Chicago, Illinois, responsible for managing IBM's Midwest region legal department. Parham began his legal career with the law firm of Chapman and Cutler in Chicago where he practiced in the area of corporate finance. Parham attended Michigan State University and the University of Michigan Law School. Parham is an active Seattle resident and he is involved with the Loren Miller Bar Association, the American Bar Association, and the Governmental Affairs Committee of the WSA (formerly Washington Software Alliance). He also serves on the Pike Place Market Foundation Board of Directors.

Marie M. McCaffrey was appointed to the Library Board by Mayor Greg Nickels in July 2006. She was a consultant to the 1998 "Libraries for All" bond campaign and later served on the Library Oversight Committee that monitors the implementation and financing of the building program. A native Seattleite, McCaffrey graduated from Nathan Hale High School and studied art and design at the University of Washington. She and her late husband, Walt Crowley, established a design and communications consultancy in 1980. McCaffrey, who lives in the Phinney Ridge neighborhood, now specializes in designing Web sites and books, which have won several awards. McCaffrey served two terms on the Seattle Arts Commission, which honored her in 1996 with the Howard S. Wright Award for outstanding support of the arts. She also has sat on the boards of the Northwest Chamber Orchestra, Center on Contemporary Art, Point-No-Point literary magazine, and Real Change. She also is a co-founder, trustee, and executive and art director of HistoryLink.org, the nation's first online encyclopedia of state and local history created expressly for the Internet.