Board of Trustees

Board Members

Alice Phillips

Chair, Board of Trustees

Appointed to Clover Park Technical College Board of Trustees March 2021. 

Business Manager/Financial Secretary, International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 483 since 2000. Trustee, Electrical Workers’ VEBA Trust, Chair of the Tacoma Joint Labor Committee; Executive Board Member, Pierce County Central Labor Council; Vice Chair, Washington State Electrical Board; Past Member, Washington State Labor Council Education Training and Apprenticeship Standing Committee; Past Board Member, Go Local Tacoma; Co-Chair, Tacoma Wellness Committee; Board President, Emergency Food Network.

Tong Zhu

Vice Chair, Board of Trustees

Appointed to Clover Park Technical College Board of Trustees May 2022. 

Chief Commercial Officer & Chief Strategy Officer, Northwest Seaport Alliance. BA University of Washington Tacoma. Executive Committee of the Washington State China Relations Council; previously served Directors of the Japan America Society of the State of Washington and Evergreen Building Products Association.
 
 

Carol Mitchell

Trustee

Appointed to Clover Park Technical College Board of Trustees December 2019.

Chair 2021-2022.

Institute for Black Justice; Former Senior Counsel for Justice Services, Pierce County Executive’s Office; Former Chief HR Officer, Metro Parks, Tacoma; Public Relations Officer, Pierce Transit; Chief HR Officer, Port of Tacoma. BA, Sociology, University of Washington; MA, Organizational Systems Renewal, Seattle University; Juris Doctor, Seattle University School of Law. Affiliations: Governor’s General Advisory Committee, Trueblood Implementation; President of the Board of Directors, Fair Housing Center of Washington. Three children.

Eli Taylor

Trustee

Appointed to Clover Park Technical College Board of Trustees December 2018.

Board Chair, 2020-2021.

Vice President, JP Morgan Private Bank, Tacoma, WA. MBA, Louisiana State University, Shreveport. BS, Western Governors University. ABA, Tiffin University. Degrees of Change; Board Member, Treasurer. Pierce County Library Foundation; Board Member. Tacoma-Pierce Black Collective; Member. Kiwanis Club of Tacoma; Member. Wife; Lauren. Children; Brielle, Zoe.

Jesus Villegas Rivera

Trustee

Appointed to Clover Park Technical College Board of Trustees February 2023. 

Student Services Support Specialist, Clover Park School District. Pierce College. Board Member, KBTC Association. Wife: Rachael. Children: Alden, Norah.