Gift Planning - Contact Us

How can we help you?

The Gift Planning staff members work closely with you and your advisors to design giving strategies that optimize your philanthropic and financial goals. We provide strategic and timely advice and coordinate the gift process with you, your advisors, and gift officers you may be familiar with from across the University.

Please feel free to call, e-mail, or write; we will be in touch soon. Click on a name for an e-mail connection or scroll down for the location and phone number of our office.

To learn more about various gift planning options, click here.

Gift Planners

Albert Thurmond, J.D.
Director of Gift Planning

Marcie Hinthorne, J.D., M.B.A.
Associate Director of Gift Planning

Sandra Blair Hernshaw, J.D.
Associate Director of Gift Planning

Amy Scott
Associate Director of Gift Planning

Mary Susan Wilson, J.D.
Associate Director of Gift Planning

Estate Gifts

Elizabeth Hikida
Estate Gift Acceptance Administrator

Administrative Staff

Samantha Williamson
Administrative Assistant

For more information on how you can make a difference by completing a major outright or deferred gift to the University of Washington, contact us at:

Office of Gift Planning
1200 Fifth Avenue, Suite 414
Seattle, Washington 98101
phone: (206) 685-1001
toll-free: 1-800-284-3679
fax: (206) 221-2966
email: Use This Form