Les Eldridge, Author & Lecturer

Les Eldridge, Author & Lecturer
Les at the Arizona Memorial

Tuesday, May 1, 2007

More about the Author

Les Eldridge is retired from careers as a college administrator, corporate executive, county commissioner, mediator, and administrative law hearings officer. He has held appointments from five Washington State governors, and from the chief justice of the state supreme court.

Since 1974, he has taught maritime history periodically at The Evergreen State College and South Puget Sound Community College. Eldridge is co-author of
The Wilkes Expedition, Puget Sound and the Oregon Country, Washington State Capital Museum, 1987, which Nathaniel Philbrick, in Sea of Glory, called an excellent discussion. Eldridge chaired the maritime committee of the Washington State Centennial Commission. He is a graduate in history of the University of Washington, and an alumnus of Harvard University’s Institute for Educational Management. He holds two certificates from the National Judicial College, in administrative law and dispute resolution.

Eldridge holds the National Association of Counties Distinguished Service Award and served for five years on its board of directors. He coached five gold-medal winning boats in the National Women’s Rowing Association championships during the 1960s. He is still active in rowing and tennis.

The
Chesapeake Command Broadsides Press, November, 2005, was his first novel, and Gray Raiders, Green Seas continues the Dunbrody - St. John series.