Published May 17, 2010
By the Tri-City Herald staff
Columbia Basin College trustee Wayne Martin has been named Trustee of the Year by the state’s Trustees Association of Community and Technical Colleges.
Martin has been on the CBC board since 2000. He’s also on the WSU Tri-Cities Advisory Council and is a founding member of the Tri-Cities Reading Foundation.
Martin, an environmental research engineer at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, was a driving force in establishing CBC’s Office of Diversity, leading to millions of dollars in federal grants for the college and its students.