Stephen Metruck, a retired U.S. Coast Guard Rear Admiral, will take over as executive director of the Port of Seattle in February.
“Plagued by public-trust issues …, the Port of Seattle on Tuesday went in a new direction” and hired Stephen Metruck, “a former rear admiral and chief financial officer at the U.S. Coast Guard,” to take over as executive director of the Port.
Metruck supervised “3,600 military and civilian personnel as commander of the Coast Guard’s mid-Atlantic region, helped plan the Coast Guard’s $10 billion budget and served on the board for the Coast Guard’s academy” and spent four years as commander of the Puget Sound sector, “where he helped lead safety operations at the Port of Seattle,” according to the Seattle Times.
The Port of Seattle has been dogged by controversies and scandals at its top management levels. Maybe reaching into the Coast Guard’s talent pool for a straight shooter who knows the turf will straighten things out. Let’s hope so.
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