Elected Experience: Sauk Suiattle Tribal Council Member (eight years)

Other Professional Experience: General Manager, Sauk Suiattle Tribe; Started the Behavioral Health, Chemical Dependancy and Medical Clinic for the Sauk Suiattle Tribe; County Sheriff’s Deputy -- Corrections Officer; Dual Diagnosis Mental Health Counselor; Retired U.S. Army Combat Medic

Education: University of Nebraska: Bachelor of Science; Masters in Education, specializing in Community Counseling

Community Service: Northwest Indian Health Board; Washington Indian Gaming Association; longtime mental health counselor, conducts crisis intervention for our veterans, children and families; foster parent, mother of eight; “greatest” grandmother of 16.

Statement: Ronda Metcalf was with Madigan Army’s first medic team after Mount St. Helen’s eruption; She was one of the leaders on location after the Oso mudslide. She’s counseled veterans with PTSD and kids addicted to drugs from alcohol to heroin.

Among the Army’s first women combat medics, Ronda’s also one of the first business leaders to deliver a minimum wage for her employees. Now she’s challenging a longtime party politician who’s been there forever but lost touch with real people. Ronda would be a new first: actually helping the rest of us – because that’s what she’s always done.