Robert Nellams
Trustee
Robert Nellams
Trustee
Robert Nellams has been the chair and the vice chair of the CWU Board of Trustees. Mr. Nellams, a CWU accounting alumnus, is retired. Before retirement, he was the director of the Seattle Center, where he directed a staff of 240 full-time employees and more than 650 intermittent staff since 2006.
He previously worked for more than a decade as the center’s deputy director and as director of patron services. He started working for the city of Seattle in 1982 as an accountant. Previously the Chair of the CWU Foundation Board, he has brought that expertise to the CWU governing board, serving as a member of the board’s finance committee, executive committee and committee on academic and student life.
For many years, Mr. Nellams has been an active member of the Breakfast Group, a Seattle-based non-profit service organization devoted to mentoring African-American and other low-income and at-risk young men of color.
Nellams is on his second six-year term that ends in September 2027.