Jennifer Plumb is an

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and pediatric trauma doctor from

Salt Lake City, Utah Salt Lake City, often shortened to Salt Lake or SLC, is the List of capitals in the United States, capital and List of cities and towns in Utah, most populous city of the U.S. state of Utah. It is the county seat of Salt Lake County, Utah, Salt ...

. She represents Utah's 9th senate district in the

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Education and career

Jennifer Plumb is a pediatric emergency department doctor. She has a Masters' degree in public health. She is the director of Utah

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, which she founded in 2015, after her brother died of a heroin overdose. As an opioid mitigation advocate she lobbied for legislation on syringe exchanges and

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access. She is also a member of Utah's opioid abuse task force.

Political career

Jennifer Plumb ran against incumbent Senator Derek Kitchen in 2018 and lost. In a 2022 rematch of that contest, Plumb defeated Kitchen by just 61 votes in the Democratic primary election for the redistricted 9th district. She was effectively unopposed (facing only a

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) in the

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. Plumb began serving as assistant minority whip in the Utah Senate the following year."Meet the women running the all-female leadership teams in Utah’s government," Deseret News, Nov. 29, 2022
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External links

Senator Plumb's page on the Utah Senate website

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Plumb, Jennifer Living people Politicians from Salt Lake City Democratic Party Utah state senators Year of birth missing (living people) 21st-century American women politicians Women state legislators in Utah 21st-century members of the Utah Legislature