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Sonntag was born in 1951 in Tacoma, WA. He attended Tacoma Community College and the University of Puget Sound.
Sonntag has served on the boards of United Way and the Boys and Girls Club. He has volunteered for the YMCA and the March of Dimes and has also spent several years coaching youth baseball and basketball teams.
On May 7, 1999, the Municipal League of King County awarded Sonntag the Warren G. Magnuson Award for "implementing performance measures and the performance audit as constructive management tools for state and local governments, allowing them to operate more efficiently and be more accountable to their constituencies."
Sonntag and his wife, Jann, live in Tacoma. They have five sons and three grandchildren.
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