Judy Huntington has been a registered nurse since 1968 and is the current Executive Director of the Washington State Nurses Association (WSNA), a position she has held since January 1999 after nearly 10 years on the executive staff of the American Nurses Association (ANA). She is a graduate of the University of Washington where she received both her BSN (1968) and MN (1985). She is also the Executive Director of the Washington State Nurses Foundation, Vice-President of the Washington Center for Nursing, and is a Vice President on the Executive Board of the Washington State Labor Council. She is also a member of the National Advisory Board to the National Federation of Nurses (NFN) union and serves on the Program and Policy Council of the Nurses and Health Professionals Division of the American Federation of Teachers (AFT). Judy will be retiring from WSNA in June, 2017. She has served in leadership roles at the local, state and national levels of WSNA and ANA, including as WSNA President and ANA Second Vice President