10/13/2003
Nancy Roberts Trott named AP's Seattle chief of bureau

NEW YORK -- Nancy Roberts Trott, regional news editor for The Associated Press in Washington, D.C., has been named chief of bureau in Seattle.

Her appointment was announced Monday by Tom Brettingen, senior vice president for Newspaper & New Media Markets.

Trott previously was Washington state news editor in Seattle from 1999 to 2002.

In her new post, she succeeds Dale Leach, who has been named AP's bureau chief for Texas.

Trott joined the AP in Concord, N.H., in 1991, and later worked in AP bureaus in Providence, R.I., and Albany, N.Y., before returning to Concord in 1993 as a supervising editor.

She left Concord three years later to move to the Pacific Northwest, where she worked briefly for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer before moving to ABC News' online operation in 1997 and then rejoining the AP at Seattle. She moved to Washington, D.C., in 2002.

Trott was born in New Britain, Conn., and graduated from the University of New Hampshire.