Mr.William Thorndike

Director
Joined Northwest Area Foundation: December 2005


Bill Thorndike runs his family business, Medford Fabrication, a custom steel fabrication company that has been in operation for 70 years. Mr. Thorndike currently serves on the boards of Oregon Business Council, Asante Health System, Pacific Retirement Services, Regence-Oregon BlueCross Blue Shield, Crater Lake National Park Trust, Southern Oregon Regional Economic Development, Inc., Oregon Economic Forum, The Oregon Idea, and the Northwest Area Foundation. Boards and commissions that he has previously served on include the Port of Portland, the Oregon Community Foundation and the Portland Branch of the San Francisco Federal Reserve Bank.

Mr. Thorndike is a 1972 graduate of Medford Senior High and graduated in 1976 from Lewis & Clark College with a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration. His honors include the SOLV* / Tom McCall Leadership Award and the Glenn Jackson Leadership Award from Willamette University. A third-generation Rogue Valley resident, he resides in rural Jackson County with his wife, Angela Littlefield, an equestrian judge.

 

*SOLV is short for Stop Oregon Litter and Vandalism