The results are in!

Meet your newly elected Alumni Association officers and board members.

Jerry Woods | President-elect

Class of 1997

Jerry Woods will serve one year as president-elect, one year as president, and one year as board chair. Woods graduated with honors with a B.A. in mass communications. He has worked in broadcasting for the past 32 years after getting his start on-campus at KGTS/ Positive Life Radio. Today, he anchors the morning show at WGTS 91.9 in Washington, D.C. He is married to Crystal and has two daughters, Adilynn and Maya. Adilynn plans to attend Walla Walla University in a year. Woods is passionate about sharing the opportunities to grow and learn that Walla Walla provided for him.

Jimmy Johnson | Treasurer

Class of 1997

Jimmy Johnson will serve a two-year term as treasurer for the Alumni Association. Johnson graduated with a bachelor’s degree in business administration with a concentration in accounting. For the past 24 years, he has worked for the Upper Columbia Conference as an assistant treasurer and most recently as corporation treasurer. He is married to Debbie and together they have three children: Chloe ’20, Tori, a sophomore at Walla Walla University, and Jack, a junior at Upper Columbia Academy. Johnson enjoys leading worship music, water skiing, camping, and reading.

Bill Gerber | Board member

Class of 1984

Bill Gerber will serve a three-year term on the Alumni Association board. Gerber graduated with a bachelor’s degree in business administration. He then captained a commercial salmon fishing boat off the coast of British Columbia for 14 years. Next, he became a ‘fisher of men’ as development director for Fraser Valley Adventist Academy. For the last 13 years he has been the director of Camp Hope for the BC Conference. He and his wife, Bonnie ’84, have a son, Beau ’19, and two daughters: Bethany ’15, and Brooklyn, who is currently a WWU student.

Karli Hart | Board member

Class of 2018

Karli Hart will serve a threeyear term on the Alumni Association board. Hart graduated with a bachelor’s degree in English and secondary teaching certification and has been teaching high school English in the Walla Walla area since then. Currently, she teaches English at Walla Walla High School. In 2023, she earned her master’s degree in education in Curriculum and Instruction from Eastern Washington University. In her spare time, she enjoys rock climbing and water sports, reading, traveling, and spending time with friends, family, and a new puppy.