Jan Lee
   HOME

TheInfoList



Click Here for Items Related To - Jan Lee
OR:
Jan Lee on:   [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Amazon]

Jan L. Lee (born May 30, 1943) is an American politician who served in the
Oregon House of Representatives The Oregon House of Representatives is the lower house of the Oregon Legislative Assembly. There are 60 members of the House, representing 60 districts across the state, each with a population of 65,000. The House meets in the west wing of the ...
from 2001 until 2003.


Biography

Lee was born in
Santa Barbara, California Santa Barbara ( es, Santa Bárbara, meaning "Saint Barbara") is a coastal city in Santa Barbara County, California, of which it is also the county seat. Situated on a south-facing section of coastline, the longest such section on the West Coas ...
in 1943. She graduated from
Linfield College Linfield University is a private university with campuses in McMinnville, and Portland, Oregon. Linfield Wildcats athletics participates in the NCAA Division III Northwest Conference. Linfield reported a combined 1,755 students after the fall ...
in 1982, and received a
Master of Public Administration The Master of Public Administration (M.P.Adm., M.P.A., or MPA) is a specialized higher professional post graduate degree in public administration, similar/ equivalent to the Master of Business Administration but with an emphasis on the issues of ...
from
Lewis & Clark College Lewis & Clark College is a private liberal arts college in Portland, Oregon. Originally chartered in 1867 as the Albany Collegiate Institute in Albany, Oregon, the college was relocated to Portland in 1938 and in 1942 adopted the name Lewis & Cl ...
in 1989. Lee served on the board of the Clackamas Soil and Water Conservation District from 1999 until 2000. She was elected to the Oregon House in 2000 as a Republican, but switched to become an Independent in June 2001. Regarding her switch, she stated, "There is still strong partisanship that stands in the way of bringing people together in the middle to form workable solutions. You cannot force someone to follow hard-line conservative beliefs that do not serve their community and do not reflect their values." She later switched to the Democratic party, and ran as a Democrat for the 51st district in the 2002 elections, where she was defeated by Linda Flores. On June 4, 2018, Lee was appointed to a vacant seat on the Sandy City Council. She was later defeated by Kathleen Walker in the November 2020 general election.


Personal life

Lee is divorced, and has one child. She resides in
Sandy, Oregon Sandy is a city located in Clackamas County, Oregon, United States, settled 1853 and named after the nearby Sandy River. Located in the foothills of the Cascade Mountain Range, the city serves as the western gateway to the Mount Hood Corridor, a ...
.


See also

*
List of American politicians who switched parties in office The following American politicians switched parties while they were holding elected office. Federal State Local See also * List of Canadian politicians who have crossed the floor * List of elected British politicians who have change ...


References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Lee, Jan 1943 births Living people Lewis & Clark College alumni Linfield University alumni Members of the Oregon House of Representatives Oregon Democrats Oregon Independents Oregon Republicans Politicians from Oregon City, Oregon Politicians from Santa Barbara, California Women state legislators in Oregon American Lutherans 21st-century American legislators 21st-century American women politicians