Carol Wilmes
Carol is the Director of Member Pooling Programs for the Association of Washington Cities (AWC), overseeing AWC’s Employee Benefit Trust, Risk Management Service Agency, Workers’ Comp Retrospective Rating Program, and Drug & Alcohol Consortium. For the majority of her 35 years with the AWC, Carol administered the Employee Benefit Trust, insuring 36,000 members from over 280 municipalities and special purpose districts. She serves as a resource for labor-management task forces addressing the complexities of health care coverage and frequently speaks at the state and national level on governmental entity health pools and public sector risk management trends. She was appointed to the Washington State Health Benefit Exchange Advisory Committee in 2015; serves on the Board of Directors to the National League of Cities Risk Insurance Sharing Consortium; as well as the Member Practices Committee with the Association of Governmental Risk Pools (AGRiP).