Assistant Secretary, Washington State DOC, Community Corrections Division
Bio
Mac began his career with the Washington State Department of Corrections over 24 years ago as Community Corrections Officer. He has promoted through the ranks in the Community Corrections Division (CCD), serving as a Community Corrections Supervisor, Electronic Monitoring Program Administrator, Field Administrator and as a Regional Administrator. Today, Mac serves as the Assistant Secretary for CCD, a role that he has been in since 2017. Mac has also served as an adjunct professor of criminal justice at Seattle University since 2004.
Mac has his Bachelor of Criminal Justice from Seattle University and his Masters of Arts degree in Criminal Justice from Washington State University. Additionally, he is a graduate of the National Institute of Corrections' Executive Excellence Program (2015), recipient of the DOC Secretary's Leadership Award (2013) and most recently the recipient of the WSU Distinguished Professional Achievement Award for Criminal Justice and Criminology (2018).
During his time as Assistant Secretary, Mac has led the Community Corrections Division through significant legislative and programmatic changes relative to supervision practices, to include changes to swift and certain response to violations, supervision compliance credits, consecutive/concurrent supervision and is currently implementing the new iCoach supervision model along with currently navigating the results of an updated workload study. He has lead through these significant changes with stakeholder engagement to include the Governor’s Office, members of the Legislature and is well adept in working with labor unions to achieve positive results.
Mac is married to his wife, Lisa, of 22 years and they have an 18-year-old son, Mackenzie who is a freshman at Washington State University. Mac enjoys the outdoors…photography, camping, mountain biking and time in/out/under his Jeep.