Jessica E. Wooley (born 1968) is small business owner, lawyer and served as an

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legislator and a Democratic member of the

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since November 2008, representing District 47 until November 2012; after redistricting in 2012, Wooley represented District 48. Wooley consecutively served from 2009 until 2014, when she was appointed by Governor

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as the Director for the Office of Environmental Quality Control.

Education

Wooley earned her BA in

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from

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, her MS in Agricultural and Resource Economics from the

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, and her JD from its

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Elections

* Wooley, a lawyer, Democrat and advocate for civil, environmental and economic rights and justice (i.e.,

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and housing, clean water and energy, food security, school gardens, keeping Kahana residents on the land, protecting Native and wild plants and animals, etc.), first ran for office in 2008, beating Maria Pacheco in the Primary and beating long-time incumbent

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Representative Colleen Meyer for the District 47 seat. Wooley won the September 20, 2008 Democratic Primary with 2,695 votes (67.7%), and won the November 4, 2008 General election with 4,934 votes (50.6%). * 2010 Wooley was unopposed for the September 18, 2010 Democratic Primary, winning with 3,978 votes, and won the November 2, 2010 General election with 4,761 votes (57.4%), beating Republican nominee

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. * 2012 Redistricting led to Wooley being switched to district 48. She had to run against then State House Majority Leader, Democratic Representative

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. Wooley won the August 11, 2012 Democratic Primary with 3,846 votes (54.5%) and was unopposed for the November 6, 2012 General election. * Representative Wooley resigned her seat on May 5, 2014, after her Gubernatorial nomination, approval by the Senate and acceptance of the position as Director of the Office of Environmental Quality Control (OEQC); Director Wooley left OEQC at the end of 2015 and started her own company, `Āina Aloha Consulting, in 2016.

References

External links

Official page
at the

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Campaign site
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Wooley, Jessica Date of birth missing (living people) Living people Democratic Party members of the Hawaii House of Representatives Politicians from Scottsdale, Arizona Politicians from Honolulu UC Berkeley College of Natural Resources alumni UC Berkeley School of Law alumni University of California, Santa Cruz alumni Women state legislators in Hawaii 1968 births 21st-century American women