Steven Todd Kirby[2][3] (born November 17, 1951) is a retired American politician of the Democratic Party.
[2] Steve Kirby was born and raised in the 29th District, living in the same house in South Tacoma for over forty years before he and his wife, Beckie Summers, moved to Tacoma's Fern Hill neighborhood in 2002.
Steve Kirby was elected to the Tacoma City Council in 1977 at the age of 25 and served four terms.
As a city councilman, he served on the Workforce Development Council Executive Board, the Tacoma-Pierce County Board of Health, the Tacoma Joint Municipal Action Committee, the Pierce Transit Board of Directors, and he was the first chairman of the Tacoma City Council's Public Safety Committee.
In addition to his official civic duties, Steve Kirby was active in his community in other ways for five decades.