SEATTLE – Washington Federal, Inc. (Nasdaq: WFSL), the parent company of Washington Federal Savings, today announced that it has successfully completed the sale to the U.S. Department of the Treasury of 200,000 shares of the Company’s Fixed Rate Cumulative Perpetual Preferred Stock, Series A, and a warrant to purchase 1,707,456 shares of the Company’s common stock for an aggregate purchase price of $200 million in cash.