Hidden Bibliographic Details
Varying Form of Title: | History Makers video oral history with The Honorable Norman Rice The Honorable Norman Rice
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Other authors / contributors: | Rice, Norman B., interviewee.
Crowe, Larry F., interviewer.
Stearns, Scott, director of photography.
HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.
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Sound characteristics: | digital
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Digital file characteristics: | video file
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Notes: | Videographer, Scott Stearns. Larry Crowe, interviewer. Recorded Seattle, Washington 2007 October 24. Vendor-supplied metadata.
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Summary: | Banking executive and Mayor Norman Rice was born on May 4, 1943 in Denver, Colorado. Rice earned his B.A. degree in communications and his M.A. degree of public administration from the University of Washington. Before entering city government, he worked as a reporter at KOMO-TV News and KIXI Radio. He served as assistant director of the Seattle Urban League, executive assistant and director of government services for the Puget Sound Council of Governments and as manager of corporate contributions and social policy for Rainier National Bank. Rice, first elected to the Seattle City Council in 1978, was reelected through 1987, serving eleven years in all. Rice became Seattle, Washington's first African American mayor, serving from 1990 to 1997. Rice returned to academia in 2007 as a visiting professor at the Evans School of Public Affairs at the University of Washington.
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