Pam Marsh (born November 4, 1954) is an American Democratic politician serving in the

Oregon House of Representatives The Oregon House of Representatives is the lower house of the Oregon Legislative Assembly, the upper house being the Oregon State Senate. There are 60 members of the House, representing 60 districts across the state, each with a population of ...

. 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 university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Berkeley, California, United States. Founded in 1868 and named after t ...

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

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, where she served as field representative for state assemblymember

Byron Sher Byron D. Sher (born February 7, 1928) is an American 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 1996. (Sher was first elected ...

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.

Electoral history

References

External links

Campaign website

Legislative website
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