EJFR Commissioners Elect Board Chair and Vice Chair

At the Fire District’s Board of Commissioners January 20 meeting, Commissioners elected Deborah Stinson as Board Chair and Jeannie Price as Vice Chair.

Ms. Stinson was first elected as a Fire Commissioner with East Jefferson Fire Rescue in 2021 serving as Commissioner for District 5/Port Townsend. Prior to becoming a Fire Commissioner, Ms. Stinson was a member of the Port Townsend City Council and was chosen twice to serve as the Port Townsend city Mayor. Stinson has served a leadership role in Local 20/20, a non-profit in East Jefferson County, actively driving a variety of projects of community-interconnectedness, sustainability, and resiliency, and is a member of the Department of Emergency Management’s Incident Management Team. She is also one of the original organizers of the Neighborhood Preparedness (NPREP) team comprised of neighbors developing plans and procedures to collectively cope with a major emergency or disaster.

Jeannie Price became a resident of Jefferson County in 2022 and joined the Port Ludlow Emergency Committee in 2023, eventually leading the group. A former Boeing airline Captain, Ms. Price was also an instructor for the Flight Operations Training Department and helped develop Crew Resource Management curriculum with NASA to teach pilots and flight attendants to utilize all resources available in order to reduce airline accidents. After completing the Community Emergency Response Training (CERT) in 2023, she became a volunteer for both the Jefferson County’s Disaster Airlift Response Team (DART), and the Jefferson County Emergency Operations Center. Price was elected to the Fire Commissioner Board in 2025 as Commissioner of District 1/Port Ludlow and is now the Vice Chair of the board.

The EJFR Fire Commissioners include: District 1: Vice Chair, Jeannie Price; District 2: Dave Seabrook; District 3: Steve Craig; District 4: Geoffrey Masci; District 5: Chair, Deborah Stinson.

“The legacy of leadership East Jefferson Fire Rescue has among our commissioners is remarkable,” said Chief Bret Black. “We are most grateful for their service.”