Terry Mitchell

Terry Mitchell lives in Seattle with his wife Cecily and the wondercat Iris. He grew up in DC went to Duke and Illinois and taught at the University of Washington for 45 years. Go Huskies ! As an academic he published seven books and over 170 journal articles.  His non-academic writing includes “The Frank and Ernest Manager” (Using cartoons by Frank Thaves), “American Tobacco Cards” (a checklist and price guide for trading cards issued in the US with tobacco from 1880-1915) and “I’ve Got A Story About That”, a collection of short stories with humor as the foundational element. He was the recipient of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP) Distinguished Scientific Contributions Award (1998) and the Lifetime Achievement Award, OB division, Academy of Management (2010). He was director of the Doctoral Program at UW from 2006 to 2012 and was on the OB Executive Committee from 1999 to 2004, serving as Chair in 2003. He is a Fellow of the Academy and SIOP. He retired in 2014 and is a Docent at the Woodland Park Zoo in Seattle, at the Alligator River Wildlife Refuge on the Outer Banks of NC and at the Hawaiian Islands Humpback Whale Sanctuary in Maui. In 2021 he was the recipient of the 2021 Distinguished Retiree Excellence in Community Service Award, University of Washington.