Top Ferguson adviser exits for private sector
An original member of Washington Gov. Bob Ferguson’s executive leadership team, who played a key role in boosting the administration’s cooperation with tribes, resigned last month for a private sector job.
Jaime Martin, Ferguson’s external relations director since November 2024, is an enrolled member of the Snoqualmie Tribe and is believed to be the first Native American to serve on the senior staff of a Washington governor.
Martin is viewed widely as an architect and driving force behind the groundbreaking executive order Ferguson issued last October to fortify the state’s relationship with tribal governments.
“I am honored to have managed the development of the executive order,” Martin said Tuesday evening. She said that when she accepted Ferguson’s appointment, she did so with the hope of “continuing to advance the governor’s long-standing efforts to improve state-tribal relations.”
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