The Arts | Mimi Gates stepping down as Seattle Art Museum director | Seattle Times Newspaper

The Arts | Mimi Gates stepping down as Seattle Art Museum director | Seattle Times Newspaper: "Mimi Gardner Neil took over as director of Seattle Art Museum in 1994, presiding over an ambitious downtown expansion, the creation of the Olympic Sculpture Park and the resolution of a landmark legal battle over a Nazi-pillaged painting — and along the way, changing her name to Mimi Gates, after marrying Bill Gates Sr., father of the Microsoft founder, in 1998."