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Ryan grew up in Anacortes, where his family has lived for five generations. Ryan went to college in upstate New York and law school in California, studied abroad, and traveled, but always felt a calling back to Anacortes and Fidalgo Island, and a deep connection to both the land and community. After graduating, Ryan joined the Skagit County prosecutor's office where he served for nearly a decade before moving to management of the County Planning Department as its assistant director, then to Samish as planning director. For the last three years Ryan has been in private practice, working with local governments to improve their permit processes and municipal codes. He is the principal author of a forthcoming state guidebook on how to process building and land use permit applications.

Ryan ran for City Council in 2011, motivated by opposition to a proposed water bottling plant and misguided proposed developments in the middle of residential neighborhoods. Ensuring Anacortes remains the best place in Skagit County to raise a family, send our kids to schools, and live a high quality of life is critically important to him.

Ryan and his wife Allison recently welcomed their first child, Benjamin. They live in a century-old home they've slowly remodeled in Old Town, across the street from where Allison's great-grandparents lived in the 1950s. Learn more about Ryan.