Lou Savage was the

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Insurance Commissioner, appointed to that position on May 30, 2012 and resigning on July 15, 2013.

Early career

Savage earned his undergraduate degree from the

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and a law degree from

Lewis & Clark Law School The Northwestern School of Law of Lewis and Clark College (also known as Lewis & Clark Law School), is an American Bar Association-approved private law school in Portland, Oregon. The law school received ABA approval in 1970 and joined the Asso ...

. He worked for Multnomah County Legal Aid Services for more than a decade and a half and spent eight years as its executive director. He was also state director for then- U. S. Representative

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's congressional office. He was president of the Oregon Law Center from 2002 until 2012. Also in 2002, he began working for the Oregon Insurance Division as a senior policy advisor.

Insurance commissioner

Previously directing the Department of Consumer and Business Services legislative activities, Savage was appointed interim Oregon Insurance Commissioner in October 2011, and May 30, 2012, was named permanently to the post of Insurance Commissioner by

Oregon Department of Consumer and Business Services The Oregon Department of Consumer and Business Services (DCBS) is the agency of the government of the U.S. state of Oregon, which has wide-ranging regulatory and consumer-protection authority in Oregon. It administers laws and rules governing wor ...

director Patrick Allen. He named the regulation and reform of

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as one of the top priorities of his administration. Savage resigned as Oregon Insurance Commissioner effective July 15, 2013 to support legal reform in developing nations. He was replaced by Laura Cali.

References

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