The Huls family has been the clan commissioner for Clan MacNeil in Washington since 2001. Bill put an inquiry in to see if there would be any clan representation at the Seattle Scottish Highland Games, and was told he was now it! His wife Ellen jumped in right away, creating booth materials out of pictures from their recent honeymoon trip to the Isle of Barra and handmade signage from clan material she bought online. For the last 20 years they've been traveling to various Northwest highland games, representing the clan proudly. They are thrilled to meet new friends and share clan history, adjusting and adding to the booth as they learn more about the history.
Outside of the highland games Bill is the Artistic Director of Renton Civic Theater, a local nonprofit live theater organization that serves the South Puget Sound community. Ellen is a high school counselor. They are of course very involved in the local performance community, but they also volunteer with a program that Ellen help start at her school to feed students on the weekends and recently throughout the pandemic. They also love camping around the northwest with their cairndoodle puppies Ceili and Melodi, who are better known as the Macneil Dragons.
