Juneau, Best, Durkan and the limits of representation
Three powerful women — a mayor, police chief, and public school superintendent — exit the Seattle leadership scene. Here's what that means.
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Three powerful women are leaving the Seattle leadership scene. Seattle's first lesbian mayor, Jenny Durkan, the city’s first African American woman police chief, Carmen Best, and the first Native American woman elected to statewide office in the United States and the first to run Seattle Public Schools, Denise Juneau, have resigned or signaled their intention to do so. (Denise Juneau; Jason Redmond for Crosscut; Matt M. McKnight/Crosscut)
What does it mean for liberal Seattle when three prominent women leaders exit their positions within months of one another? Dare I say, it could mean growth.