PORT'S BAKER, JACOBS NAMED AMONG CLARK COUNTY'S MOST POWERFUL WOMEN (8/15/07)

For Immediate Release

VANCOUVER, Wash.-The Port of Vancouver’s Nancy Baker and Addison Jacobs have recently been honored as some of the most powerful women in Clark County.

Baker, elected to the Vancouver Port Commission in 2003, was named to The Columbian B2B Magazine’s list of Clark County’s Most Powerful Women. Baker is a retired port employee, having served 14 years as executive assistant to the port’s two most recent executive directors – Byron Hanke and Larry Paulson.

In Baker’s term as a port commissioner, the Port of Vancouver has grown to the point where it needs to expand in order to continue growing. The port’s current industrial space is 100 percent leased, and cargo on the docks is at an all-time high.

Jacobs, the port’s director of public affairs since 2004, was named to the Northwest Women’s Journal’s 100 Most Powerful Women in Town list, that will appear in the publication’s What Makes A Leader issue. She has a history of leadership in Clark County, having come to the port from the Greater Vancouver Chamber of Commerce, where she was vice president.

Jacobs is also a member of the Clark College Board of Trustees.

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The Port of Vancouver, USA, created by Clark County taxpayers in 1912, is one of the major ports on the Pacific Coast. Its competitive strengths include available land, versatile cargo handling capabilities, vast transportation networks, a dependable labor force and an exceptional level of service to its customers and community.

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