Stephanie Lucash

Deputy City Manager

Stephanie Lucash is the Deputy City Manager at the City of Kenmore, Washington. She has 34 years of public sector experience in Washington State including management and leadership positions at the Cities of Kenmore, Seattle, and Covington and also King County. Positions she has held in Kenmore include Interim City Manager, Deputy City Manager, and Assistant City Manager; she joined the city team in 2021.  Her career also includes service as Assistant City Manager in Covington and Director of Citywide HR Planning and Innovation at the City of Seattle.  She is an Affiliate Professor/Distinguished Practitioner who co-teaches a class on local government at the University of Washington’s Seattle campus. She is national award-winning, has dedicated her career to public service, and always strives to make an impact and improve the world around her.   

In September 2024, she was awarded the national Leadership Trailblazer Award from the League of Women in Government and was inducted into the League of Women in Government Hall of Fame at a national conference in Pittsburgh. She was selected Washington State's Outstanding Assistant City Manager of the Year for 2023.  

She is Past President of the Board of Directors for the Washington City/County Management Association (WCMA). Under her leadership as WCMA President in 2023-2024, the WCMA had record-setting membership, launched a new 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 Governments certificate program with the University of Washington 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 (NWWLA) that provided data on its successes and made recommendations for improvement.   

She serves on the NWWLA Board of Directors and as its Recruitment and Selection Committee Chair. She also serves on the Association of Washington Cities Board of Directors and as Vice Chair of the Board of Trustees of the Archives, Library and Legacy Foundation with the Washington State Secretary of State’s Office.   

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, Peacekeeper, and was an inaugural Women in the Civic Arena cohort member.