Don Mann, during a recent Port of Newport Commissioners meeting, that he is retiring effective in January. Mann, who has logged over ten years at the helm of the port, will retire with a rather impressive record of public service in guiding the port in its acquisition of the NOAA fleet and the impending completion of the International Terminal.
Don Mann became the port’s manager in January of 1996 and has held a steady reputation for being someone who had great ideas and a rock steady plan to get them done. His David and Goliath epic performance to wrestle NOAA away from the Port of Seattle was undeniably his crowning achievement while enduring a firestorm of controversy among the northwest’s congressional delegation which pitted Oregon Senators against their colleagues in Washington State.
