Pam Marsh (born November 4, 1954) is an American
Democratic politician currently serving 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 ...
. She represents the 5th district, which covers southern
Jackson County, including the city of
Ashland.
Career
Marsh attended the
University of California, Berkeley
The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California. Established in 1868 as the University of California, it is the state's first land-grant u ...
from 1973 until 1975, and graduated from
Southern Oregon University
Southern Oregon University (SOU) is a public university in Ashland, Oregon. It was founded in 1872 as the Ashland Academy, has been in its current location since 1926, and was known by nine other names before assuming its current name in 1997.Kre ...
in 2005.
[ She lived in ]Palo Alto, California
Palo Alto (; Spanish language, Spanish for "tall stick") is a charter city in the northwestern corner of Santa Clara County, California, United States, in the San Francisco Bay Area, named after a Sequoia sempervirens, coastal redwood tree kno ...
, where she served as field representative for state assemblymember Byron Sher
Byron D. Sher (born February 7, 1928) is an American United States Democratic Party, Democratic politician. He served in the California State Senate from 1996 to 2004, prior to which, he served in the California State Assembly between 1980 and ...
and as city planning commissioner from 1985 until 1993, before moving to Ashland in 1994.
Marsh served as a member of the Ashland Charter Review Commission from 2004 until 2006, and as chair of the Ashland City Planning Commission from 2006 until 2012.[ She was appointed to the City Council in December 2012, in order to fill a vacancy.][
In February 2016, Marsh declared her candidacy for the Oregon House seat vacated by the retiring Peter J. Buckley.] She defeated Republican Steven Richie in the general election with 63% of the vote.
Personal life
Marsh and her husband, Diarmuid McGuire, have four children: Kerry, Meghan, Padraic, and Molly. She is religiously unaffiliated.
References
External links
Campaign website
Legislative website
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1954 births
Living people
Democratic Party members of the Oregon House of Representatives
Oregon city council members
County commissioners in Oregon
School board members in Oregon
Politicians from Ashland, Oregon
People from Palo Alto, California
Politicians from St. Louis
21st-century American politicians
21st-century American women politicians
Women state legislators in Oregon
University of California, Berkeley alumni
Southern Oregon University alumni
Women city councillors in Oregon