Journalist, editor, gubernatorial aide, prominent business executive, consultant, and board leader. His career in newspapers led to 30 individual national and state awards for journalistic excellence. Directly after graduating from the UW, Mr. McReynolds went to work for the Bellevue American newspaper (now the King County Journal) and was there for 11 years, the last seven years as Editor of the paper.

During his last 5 years as Editor, the paper led the state in the number of awards won. Because of his journalistic accomplishments and civic service, he was selected in 1965 as one of the three honorees by a program called the Three Outstanding Young Men in the State of Washington. There was a similar program selecting the ten outstanding young men nationally, both of which were sponsored by the Jaycees at the state and national levels. In 1967, Governor Dan Evans recruited him to be Press Secretary, a position he held for six years (longer than anyone in Washington state’s history, before or since).

He has been Chair of the Board or President of many of the major organizations in the Seattle-King County area over the years — organizations like the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Bellevue Community College, Seattle-King County Economic Development Council, and Downtown Seattle Rotary Club, to name a few. In the electric utility industry, he was president or chairman of several Pacific Northwest and national organizations. In December 2003, he was presented with the Lifetime Achievement Award of the Public Relations Society of America, only the second time it was awarded in Washington state.