Stephanie Lucash is Deputy City Manager at the City of Kenmore. She has 30 years of municipal government experience including management and leadership positions at the Cities of Kenmore, Seattle, and Covington and King County. In Kenmore, she oversees economic development and tourism, public safety and judicial branch functions, housing and human services, communications and community engagement, the city clerk, public records, and special projects. She also provides expertise and leadership on several major regional partnership efforts including representing Kenmore as Vice President of the Executive Board of the Regional Crisis Response (RCR) Agency. Her work in Kenmore has been recognized with two statewide awards including being selected the Outstanding Assistant City Manager of the Year for 2023.

Stephanie is Immediate Past President of the Board of Directors for the Washington City/County Management Association (WCMA). Under her leadership as WCMA President in 2024, the WCMA had record-setting membership, launched a mentorship program, and recruited a diverse slate of candidates that led to the WCMA Board being majority female for the first time in its history. She led an effort to launch a new Building Resilient Local Government certificate program with the University of Washington’s Evans School and led the WCMA to be the first ICMA affiliate in the country to have an affiliate agreement with the International Network of Asian Public Administrators. Other board accomplishments include completion of the first Census of the Profession in Washington State and a survey and report on the Northwest Women’s Leadership Academy that provided data on its successes and made recommendations for improvement.

She will represent Washington State on the committee to plan the International City/County Management Association (ICMA)’s 2025 conference in Tampa, Florida, and served in this capacity on the planning committee for the 2023 ICMA conference in Austin, Texas.

All of this work was recognized in September 2024 when she was awarded the national 2024 Leadership Trailblazer Award from the League of Women in Government and was inducted into the League of Women in Government Hall of Fame at the International City/County Management Association conference in Pittsburgh.

She serves on the Association of Washington Cities Board of Directors and as Vice Chair of the Washington Secretary of State’s Archives, Library and Legacy Foundation Board of Trustees. She is on the Executive Board and serves as Recruitment and Selection Committee Chair for the Northwest Women’s Leadership Academy.

Before joining Kenmore, she was Director of Citywide HR Planning and Innovation at the City of Seattle where she played a key role in the City’s pandemic response and launched nine citywide human resources projects. Prior to her work at Seattle, she led a national award-winning culture change initiative in King County’s Department of Executive Services.

Stephanie has a Master of Public Administration degree from the Evans School of Public Policy and Governance at the University of Washington and is a Lean Six Sigma Green Belt, certified Crucial Conversations trainer and Peacekeeper. She lives in the Ballard neighborhood of Seattle with her husband, three children, and their rescue dog, a boxer.