Duane Rossman

Duane Rossman is a seasoned business executive who was an area general manager for Weyerhaeuser in Yakima and Moses Lake for 37 years. He has been a member of the Yakima Valley Memorial Hospital (now Virginia Mason Memorial) Board of Trustees for 20 years.

During his almost four decades with the large timberland ownership company, Rossman attended the Weyerhaeuser Management Program coordinated by the University of Washington Business School. He also attended the Cornell Graduate School of Business and Public Administration management program. In addition, Rossman was part of a Weyerhaeuser team that traveled to Japan in 1986 to study quality processes of world-class companies.

Rossman served on the Memorial Board for four three-year terms from 1991 to 2002, and was chairman between 1999 and 2001. He retired from Weyerhaeuser in 2005 and returned to the Memorial Board in 2007.

Rossman was a member of the American Hospital Association’s Committee on Governance from 2010 to 2013 and completed his second three-year term with the Washington State Hospital Association in December 2015. Rossman also served on the Pacific Northwest University of Health Sciences Board from 2007 to 2013, where he was board secretary and a member of the Finance and Executive committees.

After earning a bachelor’s degree from Washington State University, Rossman was drafted by the Chicago Cubs and played two years of professional baseball.