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Tim Reynon

January 15, 2025

Craig A. Bill - Executive Director, Governor's Office of Indian Affairs

Tim Reynon is an enrolled member of the Puyallup Tribe and currently serves as the Tribal Relations Director for the City of Seattle’s Office of Intergovernmental Relations. He is a former member of the Puyallup Tribal Council and served his tribe for over 22 years as a tribal attorney, Executive Director of Human Resources, Training, and Education, People Operations Director/Compliance Officer at the Puyallup Tribal Health Authority, and Council Member.

Tim is the Vice Chair of the Washington State Criminal Justice Training Commission, the Secretary for the Purpose Dignity Action (PDA) Board of Directors, and former Vice Chair of the Washington Coalition for Police Accountability. Tim has served on the Pierce County Equity Review Committee and the Tacoma-Pierce County Health Department’s Policy Co-Design Team. He has served as Co-Chair of the Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians’ Law & Justice Committee and as Co-Chair of De-Escalate WA, the coalition that lead the successful Initiative 940 campaign in 2018. Tim served on the Governor’s Task Force on Independent Investigations of Police Use of Force in 2019, as well as on the 2016 Washington State Joint Legislative Task Force on the Use of Deadly Force in Community Policing as a representative of the Governor’s Office of Indian Affairs.

Tim earned his Juris Doctorate degree from Brigham Young University’s J. Reuben Clark School of Law and his Bachelor of Social Work degree from BYU-Hawaii. Tim was admitted to the Washington State Bar in 1999 and is a past President of the Northwest Indian Bar Association.

Most importantly, Tim and his wife Maile will be celebrating 30 years of marriage this year and they are the proud parents of three young men.

A New Website for GOIA

August 22, 2018

The Governor's Office of Indian Affairs (GOIA) is pleased to present its new website. The website is the result of the hard work and collaboration between the GOIA staff and the Website Services team at Washington Technology Solutions (WaTech).

Our goals are to provide the users of this website with timely information to aid in the recognition of the importance of tribal sovereignty, to affirm the government-to-government relationship between the state of Washington and Indian Tribes as outlined under RCW 43.376, to advocate for the social and economic betterment of all American Indians and Alaska Natives living in Washington state, and to serve to assist the state in developing policies consistent with those principles.

Feel free to use the 'Contact' link and let us know how we can serve you better with this new website.