A Representative from Oregon. Born in Fairfield, Solano County, Calif. , February 14, 1964. Graduated from Merrimack High School, Merrimack, N. H. Attended Bunker Hill Community College, Boston, Mass. B. A. , Emmanuel College, Boston, Mass. , 1992. Sales representative. Consultant. Nonprofit executive. Research fellow, Wayne Morse Center for Law and Politics, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oreg. Member of the Oregon state house of representatives, 2009-2017, majority leader, 2013-2015. Commissioner of the Oregon state bureau of labor and industries, 2019-2023. Elected as a Democrat to the One Hundred Eighteenth and to the succeeding Congress (January 3, 2023-present).