Michele Rushworth

During the interview Suzanne Oelschlager told host Jane Clayson that the portrait that Rushworth donated to her family “is something that my entire family is going to cherish forever.”[8] In 2006, the Seattle Times wrote a feature article about Rushworth and quoted Washington State Capitol Museum Director Derek Valley saying that her portrait of Washington State Governor Gary Locke "captures Governor Locke at his best".

[1] The Las Vegas Weekly in 2006 quoted Teresa Moiola, Director of Marketing and Public Information for the Nevada Department of Cultural Affairs, as saying that Michelle Rushworth “is an exemplary painter, perhaps one of the stellar artists of our country”[9] in a reference to the official portraits Rushworth painted of Nevada Governors Kenny Guinn and Jim Gibbons.

[12][13] A year later Rushworth was commissioned to paint the official portraits of Wyoming Governors Bryant Butler Brooks and Lester C. Hunt.

Rushworth's portrait of United States Coast Guard Admiral Thad Allen was unveiled in the Officer's Club at Fort McNair in Washington, D.C., and was displayed at his Change of Command Ceremony on May 25, 2010.

In 2011 the Seattle Symphony commissioned Rushworth to paint a full-length portrait of retiring music director and Conductor Gerard Schwarz, to commemorate his 26 years with the orchestra.

[15] Rushworth painted the official portraits of United States District Judges Alan Bond Johnson, William F. Downes, and Sam Sparks.