Millie Quan named senior features editor

Associate Editor Leo Wolinsky's staff memo:

I’m very pleased to announce that Millie Quan will join the features staff in the new position of senior features editor.

In this post, Millie will take charge of a team of writers whose goal will be to broaden the kinds of coverage that appears in our sections as well as get more feature work into Column 1 and on Page 1. Millie will help select the team and also work with the editors of each of our sections to develop more front page offerings.

As assistant national editor for enterprise, Millie has had the good fortune to work with many of the paper’s outstanding reporters on some of its biggest stories, including the Columbia shuttle disaster, Hurricane Katrina and the Virginia Tech shootings.  (Not that disasters follow her wherever she goes, but she is prepared if the Hollywood Sign suddenly tumbles into Beachwood Canyon.)

Last year, she edited nearly 70 stories that appeared in Column 1 and dozens of other A1 stories.

Millie joined the Times in March 1998 as an assignment editor in business, where she counted one Davan Maharaj among her reporters. She was later named political editor and ran coverage of the 2000 campaign.

Before coming to the Times, she was an assistant managing editor at the Seattle Times, and she also had worked at a variety of publications in Oregon, including the Oregonian.