Former longtime Auburn Mayor Bob Roegner, of Federal Way, has been named to Highline Community College Board of Trustees by Gov. Chris Gregoire.

Roegner served as mayor of Auburn from 1981-1993, the chief deputy county assessor from 1994-2001 and the head of King County’s Records, Elections and Licensing Services Division from 2001-2003.

Roegner joins current board chair Dan Altmayer and trustees Dr. Edward Davila, Debrena Jackson Gandy and Michael Regeimbal.

The Board of Trustees governs Highline and guides the direction of the college. They set college policies, hire the president and approve budgets. Trustees must reside in the college district’s boundaries.

Roegner retired in 2003, but has maintained an active civic life. He currently serves on the King County Personnel Board and Federal Way Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors.

In addition, he serves on the board of the Federal Way Boys & Girls Club and Friends of the Hylebos, a local nonprofit that works to protect and restore streams, wetlands, forests and open space in the Hylebos watershed.

He also works part time consulting to governments on management and human resources issues and writes a political column for the Federal Way Mirror.

He earned a master’s in Sociology from Pacific Lutheran University in Parkland, and attended Peninsula Community College in Port Angeles.

Highline Community College was founded in 1961 as the first community college in King County. With approximately 18,900 students and 350,000 alumni, it is one of the state’s largest institutions of higher education. The college offers a wide range of academic transfer and professional-technical education programs, with day, evening and weekend classes. Alumni include former Seattle Mayor Norm Rice, entrepreneur Junki Yoshida and Washington state poet laureate Sam Green.