Alcoholism and Substance Abuse Administrative Board Members

Board Chair

Joan Clement, M.S.W., LICSW, , resides in Council District 2. Ms. Clement has held supervisory positions in social work since 1980 at Harborview Medical Center, University of Washington Medical Center, and Veteran's Administration Medical Center. She has been an Assistant Clinical Professor at the University of Washington School of Social Work and the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, School of Medicine. Ms. Clement has also published several articles on emergency health services. She was the recipient of the1990 Outstanding Clinical Faculty Award from the University of Washington, Dept. of Psychiatry School of Medicine, and the recipient of the 1992 National Association Workers Knee/Whitman Lifetime Health/Mental Health Achievement Award. She has been on the King County Alcoholism and Substance Abuse Administrative Board since 1984. She served on various King County committees and task forces, including Chronic Public Inebriate Task Force, Systems Integration Advisory Council, Human Services Roundtable Family Violence Work Group, Jail Psychiatric Services Task Force, and Mental Health Crisis Services Evaluation Task Force. Currently, she is the Social Work Supervisor for the HIV/AIDS program at Harborview Medical Center.

Vice-Chair

Pat Godfrey, resides in Council District 7. Mr. Godfrey worked in the State Senate as a Senior Staff Coordinator starting in 1982, and was an advisor to Senate Leadership for nearly nineteen years, retiring in 2001. He joined the Board due to the depth of his interest in and commitment to recovery programs stemming from his personal experience with the disease of alcoholism and drug addiction. He has been in recovery nearly twenty-seven years. He is active with alcohol and drug abuse recovery programs in the Federal Way area.

Linda Brown resides in Council District 4. Ms. Brown earned her B.S. in Nursing from Arizona University; M.S. degree in Psychiatric Nursing and Ph.D in Nursing from the University of Colorado. She worked as Research Scientist for Alcohol and Drug Abuse Institute-University of Washington from 1998 to 2003; as Research Assistant Professor, School of Nursing at the University of Washington in 1991-1998; and as Director of Nursing at Cedarcrest Regional Hospital in Connecticut in 1989-1990. She has published several articles on drug addiction and family and community health. She has spent a decade doing program evaluation with public sector programs, including mental health, substance abuse, and criminal justice programs for offenders. Ms. Brown served as KCASAAB Chair from 2002-2006.

Jim Benbow resides in Council District 2. Mr. Benbow is Associate Director of the Addictive Treatment Center at Seattle Veterans Administration Medical Center. He has worked in the mental health and addictive treatment field for 30 years. The majority of his service has been with military veterans cared for by the VA Puget Sound Health Care System. He has several years of experience in the provision of treatment and social services for people with substance use and mental health disorders.

Michelle DiMiscio resides in Council District 8. Ms. DiMiscio earned her Bachelor of Arts in Sociology from UCLA, and Master of Social Work from Boston University. She has 16 years of experience in substance abuse, HIV, and related fields. She managed a pre-treatment program and developed culturally relevant pre-treatment services for previously incarcerated people of color. Ms. DiMiscio served as program director for People of Color Against AIDS Network in 2003-2007. She is currently employed with New Futures, supervising 11 staff members, in charge of six integrated, culturally relevant programs in low-income apartment complexes in Burien.

Roger Goodman resides in Council District 6. Mr. Goodman is an attorney licensed in Washington and is an appointed member of the American Bar Association's Standing Committee on Substance Abuse. Mr. Goodman served as senior staff in the U.S. House of Representatives in the 1980s and 1990s in Washington, D.C., and in the late 1990s, he served in Olympia as executive director of the Washington Sentencing Guidelines Commission. In 2006, Mr. Goodman was elected to the Washington State House of Representatives from the 45^th Legislative District. In addition to his current legislative position, he serves as the director of the Drug Policy Project at the King County Bar Association and as executive director of the Voluntary Committee of Lawyers, working nationwide with bar associations on drug policy reforms.

Tim King resides in Council District 4. Mr. King has been a resident and property owner on Queen Anne for over 30 years. He owns and operates a landscape architecture and site master planning corporation. He is a member of the Samish Indian Nation, served three terms as an elected member of the Tribal Council, and is currently Vice Chairman of the Tribal Council. He also served as chairman of the Samish Housing Board and as president of Samish Corporation Board. Mr. King has been in recovery from alcoholism for over seven years and is active in AA and Al-Anon. He served the United States Marine Corps during the Vietnam War.

Raymond Miller resides from Council District 5. Mr. Miller is the president and founder of the Washington State Command Council of the National Association for Black Veterans, Inc. (NABVETS). He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Social and Behavioral Science from The Evergreen State College and a Masters Degree in Clinical Psychology. He is a Chemical Dependency Specialist. Mr. Miller served in the US Air Force. He has held various positions, including director of Racial Justice and Anti-Violence Programs for the church Council of Greater Seattle; clinical therapist with the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Puget Sound Health Care System; readjustment counseling therapist for the Seattle Veterans Center and as a mental health technician with the Substance Abuse Residential Rehabilitation Program and the Post Traumatic Stress Residential Program within the Addictions Treatment Center at the VA Puget Sound Health Care System. Additionally, Mr. Miller worked as a mental health counselor, outreach worker for the Community Psychiatric Clinic, and drug and alcohol counselor with the Seattle School District. Today, Mr. Miller is very active in the local community, serving as the chair of the Black Policy Foundation, Chair of the Armed Services and Veterans Affairs Committee with the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, Washington, Oregon and Alaska State Conference. He is the chairman of the Black Democratic Committee and educational chair for the African American Mental Health Professionals of Washington State. Mr. Miller has received the Warren G. "Maggie" Magnuson award as the 2002 Democrat of the Year, among many other awards.

Mariah Lewis-Mitchell resides in Council District 8. Ms. Lewis-Mitchell earned her BA in Law, Societies, and Justice and American Ethnic Studies, with a minor in Human Rights from the University of Washington in 2005. She worked as a legal intern in a law firm in Seattle in 2005; served as a facilitator to the homeless for the Salvation Army in 2005 to 2006; and worked as a legislative intern for City of Seattle Councilmember, Tom Rasmussen in 2006. She worked with Aaron Dixon for U.S. Senate in 2006-2007 as the outreach coordinator. Currently, Ms. Lewis is working as a child and family advocate for First A.M.E. Child and Family Center.