Tammie Wilson was a member of the
Alaska House of Representatives
The Alaska State House of Representatives is the lower house in the Alaska Legislature, the state legislature of the U.S. state of Alaska. The House is composed of 40 members, each of whom represents a district of approximately 17,756 people per ...
, representing District 3.
Wilson ran for the
Fairbanks North Star Borough (FNSB) Assembly each year from 2006 to 2008. In 2006 she challenged incumbent
Charlie Rex. Rex was reelected by an extremely narrow margin.
Wilson mounted another campaign for Assembly in 2007, finishing second, before being elected the following year, running unopposed that time. In 2009 she ran for FNSB Mayor, as incumbent
Jim Whitaker
Norris J. "Jim" Whitaker (born September 30, 1950) is an American politician of the Republican Party (United States), Republican Party who served as mayor of Fairbanks North Star Borough, Alaska, Fairbanks North Star Borough, Alaska, from 2003 ...
was term-limited. She was supported by
Francis "Schaeffer" Cox, a militia leader who spoke and tabled at a fundraiser for her. She came in second out of six candidates in the regular election. As no candidate achieved a 40% plurality, Wilson and first-place finisher Luke Hopkins faced each other in a runoff election. Hopkins won by 844 votes out of over 17,000 votes cast. While she attributed her political involvement to defense of junkyards (that would personally impact her), Wilson's campaign was dogged by revelation of a long-standing formal complaint against her junkyard (lack of screening).
Gene Therriault resigned from the
Alaska Senate in 2009 to take a position as senior energy policy adviser to Alaska Governor
Sean Parnell.
John Coghill, the representative for District 11, was appointed to take Therriault's place. Parnell announced on November 24, 2009, that Wilson would be appointed to the House seat. She was sworn in on December 3, 2009, in
Fairbanks by
Lt. Governor Craig Campbell. She won election on her own under the state's 2011 redistricting plan, that placed her into a new District 2. Wilson was assigned positions on the Transportation, Health and Social Services, Labor and Commerce, Military & Veterans Affairs, and the Joint Armed Services committees in the House. She was reelected in 2012, 2014, 2016 and 2018. In July 2015 Wilson announced her intention to run again for borough mayor. She was defeated in the October election by
Karl Kassel
Karl W. Kassel (born September 10, 1952) is an Independent (United States) politician and former Mayor of Fairbanks North Star Borough, Alaska, serving from 2015 to 2018. He is a retired businessman and government administrator.
Biography
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, who garnered 57% of the vote. On January 24, 2020, she announced her resignation from her House seat in order to become a policy adviser at the Alaska Department of Health and Human Services. She had long maintained an interest in the operations of the Office of Children's Services (OCS) within that department.
North Pole Rep. Tammie Wilson announces resignation, new role with DHSS
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'', Joe Vigil, January 25, 2020. Retrieved January 25, 2019.
References
External links
Tammie Wilson
at Ballotpedia
Tammie Wilson
at ''100 Years of Alaska's Legislature''
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21st-century American politicians
21st-century American women politicians
Fairbanks North Star Borough Assembly members
Illinois State University alumni
Living people
Republican Party members of the Alaska House of Representatives
People from North Pole, Alaska
Place of birth missing (living people)
Women state legislators in Alaska
Year of birth missing (living people)