Ryan Rule
SPEEA Area VP

Ryan Rule is currently SPEEA President. He is a former Council Rep who has served multiple roles on the SPEEA Executive Board since 2009. He also served as SPEEA president for two terms starting in 2014.

Rule also served on the 2012 and 2016 SPEEA Negotiations Teams. That experience showed him another side of the company. "If they had their way, nobody would know what their benefits are from day to day because Boeing wanted the ability to change them on a whim — as they have done for non-represented employees," he said.

Rule, an electronic systems design and analysis engineer, went to work at Boeing in 2001. Since then, he has worked in many areas, including Phantom Works, Connexion by Boeing, Integrated Defense Systems and Commercial Aviation Services (CAS). He's currently at Boeing Commercial Airplanes (BCA) Cabin and Network Systems (C&NS).

He has three Bachelor of Science degrees — one each in physics, applied math and computer science. While working at Boeing, he went to graduate school at the University of Washington and earned two Master of Science degrees — one in physics and the other in computer science and engineering.

In 2019, he became an Associate Technical Fellow (ATF), one of the highest honors for technical excellence at Boeing. In 2015, he joined the board of the Joint Center for Aerospace Technology Innovation (JCATI), which provides funding for industry-academic partnerships. He serves as the statewide labor representative on the JCATI board.

He was born and raised in California's central valley. For hobbies, Rule enjoys traveling and scuba diving. His family includes his wife, Carrie, and four children. He's also president of the Parent Teacher Association for his children's elementary school, a role he has served since 2018.