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 th ...

. 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 un ...

from 1973 until 1975, and graduated from Southern Oregon University in 2005. She lived in

Palo Alto, California Palo Alto (; 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 coastal redwood tree known as El Palo Alto. The city was es ...

, where she served as field representative for state assemblymember Byron Sher 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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