Placeholder —- Patti Jackson is the Chief of Police for the City of Tacoma and the first woman to lead the Tacoma Police Department. She brings more than 35 years of law enforcement experience, including extensive leadership with the Pierce County Sheriff’s Office. There she led Patrol Operations as chief and, before that, served for eight years as chief of the Corrections Bureau. She also served as the Basic Law Enforcement Academy corrections commander at the Washington State Criminal Justice Training Commission.

Chief Jackson began leading the Tacoma Police Department as interim chief in March 2025, and the Tacoma City Council unanimously voted to confirm her as permanent chief. Throughout her career, she has prioritized strengthening trust between law enforcement and the community, and she has experience negotiating union contracts, preparing budgets, and mentoring colleagues into leadership roles.

Robyn Denson is a Pierce County Councilperson representing District 7, which includes the Chinese Reconciliation Park. She’s been an advocate for the Chinese Reconciliation Park since joining Council and has advocated on our behalf to secure County funding for a variety of improvement projects. She believes strongly in our mission and has been a stalwart partner in helping educate the community about the events of the past and how we can all do better together now and into the future.

Jonathan hales from Albuquerque New Mexico, is a graduate of Arizona State University where he was commissioned with the US Army Corps of Engineers where he served until retirement.  His service to country ethos provided him a unique lens with which to effectively engage cross culturally in a variety of settings. He adopted Tacoma as his home in 1975 when assigned to what is now, Joint Base Lewis. Jon served in a variety of command and staff positions including Company Executive Officer Commander, Battalion and Logistics Officer, and Seattle Corps of Engineers Project Manager. He served in various staff assignments at the Training and Doctrine Command, Theater Army Area Command War Reserves, and with the 4th Reserve Officer Training Corps Fort Lewis prior to retirement in 1997.  Yet his service ethos prepared him for graduate studies in Computer Science at Pacific Lutheran University and spawned his second career in Computer Software Support at PLU. Jonathan served two terms as President of the Tacoma Branch NAACP and continues to volunteer with various organizations including the Tacoma Pierce County Black Collective, Lutherans Confronting Racism, and remains active in a variety of multiethnic church groups in Tacoma.  He is the father of two extremely talented daughters and an eternally gifted son.