Oregon House District 7 Democrat primary | Fireside vs. Huffman vs. Rodley

Update: This story has been updated to reflect that Rep. John Lively offered campaign contributions to all three candidates in the Democratic primary.

To see how candidates answered identical questions from Lookout, click here.

Three candidates are competing in the May 19 primary election to secure the Democratic spot in the November election for the Oregon House of Representatives 7th district, which encompasses Springfield.

In Oregon, only a voter affiliated with the party may vote in a party’s primary. 

The Democratic candidate who receives the most votes will proceed to the general election in November to run against Republican candidate Adam Wilson, a wealth advisor at LPL Financial, who is unopposed in the primary.

Democrats who live in the district will see three candidates on the May primary ballot:

• Ky Fireside, a progressive activist and archaeologist with the civil engineering firm Kleinfelder
• KC Huffman, an attorney at Bromley Newton Huffman in Eugene, and also a high school baseball coach
• Kori Rodley, a Springfield city councilor who works at Lane County Developmental Disabilities Services

The winner in November will succeed Rep. John Lively, a Democrat, who is not seeking reelection after 14 years in the Legislature. Representatives serve two-year terms, and there are no term limits.

Lively, a former Springfield mayor, was elected in 2012 to represent District 12, which at the time covered Springfield. He was reelected four times. After the district’s boundaries were redrawn in 2022, Lively won the District 7 seat. He was reelected in 2024.

District 7 covers Springfield and surrounding areas to the north and south. In the 2022 general election, Lively beat Republican Alan Stout, a current Springfield city councilor, 52% to 48%. In November 2024, Lively beat Republican Cory Burket, 56% to 44%.

“I think the primary is for people getting out, stating their positions and trying to convince people whether they’re the best candidate,” said Lively, who offered campaign donations to all three candidates. “I’m not so sure that my endorsing or not endorsing would make a big difference. It might, but I respect the voters enough to let them make the choice.”

Ky Fireside

Ky Fireside doesn’t like not knowing things. 

The archaeologist, Springfield resident and candidate for Oregon House District 7 is pursuing their second bachelor’s degree, this time in cybersecurity. (Fireside uses they/them pronouns.)

Fireside is an organizer with Eyes Off Eugene. The group last year lobbied for the removal of Flock Safety automated license-plate reader cameras in Eugene and Springfield, citing concerns about privacy and data being shared with the federal government. 

They were part of a Senate Judiciary work group that worked on a bill during the 2026 state legislative session regulating law enforcement use of license-plate reader technology. Fireside called Senate Bill 1516A, which cleared both chambers, “the first little attempt at putting some safeguards” on the technology.

Now, Fireside seeks to become a state legislator. 

Fireside spent their first 25 years in Chicago before moving to California, where they worked as a 911 dispatcher. They moved to the Eugene-Springfield area in 2020 to attend the University of Oregon and earned a bachelor’s degree in anthropology with an archaeology specialty in 2021.

While in school, they worked at Starbucks, and in 2022, led the first unionization campaign of a Starbucks in Oregon.

“Getting everybody together to work towards a common goal was super important there, and I think that’ll be important in the Legislature,” Fireside said. 

They experienced that process with SB1516A.

“I was up in the Capitol almost every day this short session, talking to legislators, explaining, here’s what this is, here’s what the problem is, here’s why this will help,” Fireside said. “So just getting people all on the same page is so valuable.”

Since 2022, Fireside has worked as an archaeologist for civil engineering firm Kleinfelder. The firm is contracted by companies or state agencies to monitor cultural sites during construction or after wildfires. 

“When I found out that (Lively) was retiring, I kind of figured the best way to continue some of the work that we were doing would be to just step into that role myself,” Fireside said, noting they live outside the city incorporated boundary, which precludes them from serving on City Council or running for mayor.

Fireside said they’re an independent thinker who is “not afraid to be the person that dives in and tries to solve a problem.” They’ll be a leader in the Legislature, they said, at a time when Salem needs strong leaders and more diversity of subject matter experts.

“There’s nobody there that understands tech, and we’re at a point where tech is a major part of everyday life,” they said. “AI is becoming part of everything. Computers are part of everything. And when most people there have a background as a prosecutor, they simply don’t understand the issue.”

Fireside said District 7 is in crisis mode when it comes to health care, mentioning the closure of Eugene’s University District hospital, “so anybody in Eugene that needs hospital care is coming to Springfield,” and PeaceHealth pursuing an out-of-state emergency room provider for its RiverBend hospital.

“Health care is getting less affordable and less accessible, and it’s going to become a complete disaster,” they said.

Fireside supports health care for all in Oregon. In 2023, the Oregon Legislature convened the Universal Health Plan Governance Board to design a publicly funded health care system for Oregon. The board will present a comprehensive plan to the Legislature by September this year.

“We have a real chance to actually pass that, and I don’t know how else we get out of the mess that we’re in health care-wise,” Fireside said.

They said they would like to see more effort from the Legislature regarding U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. They think Oregon needs to revisit what its sanctuary law means and what counts as assisting immigration.

Fireside said they want Oregon to have a stronger system of protections for workers, including allowing more people to unionize and assessing bigger fines for union busting and wage theft.

They said health care and education need to be funded before money is put toward other matters. 

“Besides fixing the tax structure, I think it’s just going to be a matter of reallocating,” they said. 

“We are not collecting enough, and then we are spending it in weird places,” said Fireside, who mentioned the Treasure Valley Reload Center in eastern Oregon that the Legislature has been funding since 2017 but has not been built. “And I think if we fix both of those, there probably is enough money for things like school and health care and nice roadways without taxing people just for driving.”

KC Huffman

“How do we help people?”

That question is always on KC Huffman’s mind. The first time he donated blood, he learned how big the demand was, so he joined the board of directors for Lane Memorial Blood Bank.

“I try not to lose that sort of young wide-eyed view of: ‘You can still change the world’ — and for those people (who received blood), you did,” Huffman told Lookout Eugene-Springfield.

“Service to people has been important to me throughout my life.” 

He has also served on the boards of Alvord-Taylor, a nonprofit serving people with disabilities, and Oregon Community Credit Union. He said he would bring a collaborative approach to the Legislature.

Huffman grew up on the coast in Reedsport, where his father worked in a sawmill. He attended Linfield College in McMinnville and studied finance and political science before moving in 1997 to attend law school at the University of Oregon, where he earned his degree in 2000. He has lived in Springfield since 2003.

Today, he is an attorney at Bromley Newton Huffman in Eugene, where he practices business, real estate, estate planning, probate and trust administration law. Huffman previously worked at Thorp Purdy Jewett Urness & Wilkinson law firm in Springfield.

He and his wife, Tristyne, have four kids, aged 21, 18, 16 and 13. He coaches baseball at Marist High School, where his 16-year-old son attends and where his older kids graduated. 

“The schools in Springfield are struggling,” he said. “I’ve talked to families who have transferred out of the district because of concerns that they’ve seen. What I don’t necessarily know is all the reasons why. For some people, it just wasn’t a good fit. For some people, the opportunities to take certain classes weren’t there.”

Huffman sees an uneven sense of community around schools compared to other parts of Springfield.

“Finding ways to best use resources is critical in my opinion,” Huffman said. “Are we currently using the available dollars in the best way possible?”

Huffman said Springfield is on a positive path for economic expansion, touting development in the Gateway area, but it should continue work to attract more businesses.

“Eugene creates a lot of red tape at times on how you can start new things,” he said. “And I think Springfield has done a good job of positioning themselves as the neighbor saying, ‘Hey, come check out Springfield.’”

He is interested in how private investment can supplement taxes when it comes to revenue, and pointed toward how development of hotels in the Gateway area has drawn in additional businesses and restaurants. He wants to know if that template could be applied to other places in Springfield.

While he sees the benefits of economic development, Huffman said lawmakers may need to prioritize fixing gaps in health care before bringing more businesses to the area, “because we’re already not providing enough services to everyone, or really access to everyone, and the cost can be prohibitive.”

He said the state needs to figure out what to prioritize with limited resources.

“And that’s going to take looking at across the board, where do we want to improve?,” Huffman said. “And if we decide, for example, that health care, business development and schools, of those three, what order do we have to go in to make it make sense? I think health care has to be towards the top.”

Huffman said that when it comes to ICE activity, Oregon should decide for itself when it needs federal help. He said if the Legislature disagrees with what ICE is doing, “I think we do have an obligation to say, ‘No, we don’t need your help,’ or ‘No, we aren’t going to help assist you with this.’”

He believes agreed-upon solutions tend to work better than directives handed down and would work to be collaborative whenever possible.

“We have parties so we can have these arguments and these ideas,” he said. “And where I think we’ve gone astray is we’ve had the arguments and we’ve stopped looking for the learning moments in them. We’ve just decided I want to argue so I can be right, as opposed to I want to argue so I can learn.”

It’s also where Huffman feels his work as an attorney sets him up to be in Salem. As an attorney, he gathers information from his client and the opposing attorney to understand different perspectives of an issue and seek common ground.

“That will lend itself to the type of work that’s done at the Legislature,” Huffman said. 

Kori Rodley

Kori Rodley likened complex housing projects to complicated recipes, such as baking baguettes.

Rodley, who called herself a “therapeutic baker,” said it takes time to see the results, which she has experienced firsthand as a Springfield city councilor.

“I’ve learned all of these ways that you can piece this stuff together in order to get it over the finish line for affordable housing,” Rodley told Lookout. 

After Rodley joined Springfield City Council in 2021, she advocated for using American Rescue Plan Act funds to purchase undeveloped properties that could later be leveraged for housing projects. Earlier this year, the council voted to transfer a Main Street property it bought in 2024 to Cornerstone Community Housing, which plans to develop three apartment buildings.

Now, Rodley wants to take what she’s learned on City Council and advocate for Springfield as a state representative.

Rodley grew up in a “solidly working-class family” in Roseburg. Her father was a logger and her mother still works as an office manager.

After high school, Rodley moved to Portland, where she read in a newspaper about a recovery house for women with kids who were leaving prison. She started volunteering and took a grant-writing class to learn how to raise money for the program.

“I’m very much a systems and process person, and the systems were built to work the way they work,” Rodley said. “And working in human services, you get to get in these systems and try to change and fix and stretch them so that they could better serve people the way they need to.”

She attended Lane Community College and the University of Oregon.

“I went on all sorts of adventures, and I got married, and I had kids, and I came out,” Rodley said.

Today, the Springfield resident works in planning and administration at Lane County Developmental Disabilities Services, where she enjoys working behind the scenes in social services. She has worked at United Way of Lane County and Junction City Local Aid. 

“It’s always been important for me to be connected to work that is impacting people’s lives in a positive way,” Rodley said. 

She and her spouse, Teri, have four adult children and two grandchildren.

On council, Rodley has chaired the city’s Legislative Committee to advocate for Springfield. She touts a practical and deep understanding of how government works through her experience at the county and city levels.

“For me, this is very much a ‘for the love of Springfield’ effort,” she said. “I think that my understanding of the people who live in Springfield, the interests, the processes, the aesthetic of Springfield is something that I will take with me (to the Legislature).”

Rodley said she has also learned how to have hard conversations and “do hard work” with people with different opinions.

“I’ve worked in these situations for so long that I think I have a lot of skills around, ‘How do we get to what we agree on?’” she said.

She sees affordability as one of the biggest issues in Oregon right now. One of the lenses Rodley said she would bring to the Legislature is making sure working people are not left behind when it comes to cost-cutting. 

“If we’re going to make cuts, let’s make it over here and not on the backs of working people, because we often try to balance our budgets and make our cuts at the bottom, as opposed to looking at the top or looking at all of these other areas where we’ve inflated,” she said. 

Rodley said that Measures 5 and 50, which limit property taxes in Oregon, need structural changes in order for cities and the state to raise needed revenue, but those changes will require less polarized, cross-party conversations.

“We all talk about it, and we never sit down and figure out how to tackle the repercussions of Measures 5 and 50,” she said. 

Rodley has been critical of PeaceHealth’s announcement to end its contract with Eugene Emergency Physicians, a local group that has provided emergency care at the hospital for nearly 35 years, in favor of Georgia-based company ApolloMD. Rodley, who supports health care for all, said the health care system is broken.

“We’re going to have to sit down and figure out how to fix it,” she said. “And we might not be able to fix it for the nation, but Oregon’s been pretty good about figuring out, ‘How do we do things within our state.’”

Rodley supports legislation passed in Oregon this year to rein in activity by ICE officers.

“We should be able to hold the immigration officers to the same standards that we hold our public safety officers to,” she said.

Candidates questionnaires

Candidates provided answers in their own words to questions from Lookout. Our questions are in bold, followed by their responses.

Ky Fireside

Party: Democrat

Age: 35

Residence: Springfield

Education: BS – Archaeology, magna cum laude, University of Oregon; BS Cybersecurity (expected), Western Governors University

Occupation: archaeologist, former 911 dispatcher

Prior elected experience: none

Family status: live with partner and pets

Key endorsements: UAW local 821 – UO Student Workers, AFT-OR, SEIU 503, Eugene-Springfield Democratic Socialists of America, Oregon Working Families Party, Graduate Teaching Fellows Federation Local 3544, Eugene Tenant Alliance, Sierra Club, Pro-Animal Oregon

Qualifications: What in your background would make you the best representative for your race?

I have struggled with the job and housing market here. I know how hard things are right now and the financial strains of everyday Oregonians are at the forefront of my mind. Furthermore, I’ve already been through the process of being in a legislative workgroup, crafting legislation. I helped write SB 1516. I understand the significance minor word changes can have. My ability to dive deeply into problems and consult subject-matter experts on solutions is a skill sorely lacking in current public officials.

Priorities: What would your top three goals be if elected and how would you accomplish them?

Universal Healthcare is a top priority. The legislature will be voting on it in 2027, and I will stand up to the insurance industry when they lobby against it. I also want to make sure that mental health, dental, and vision are covered as well as ensuring protections for reproductive and gender-affirming care.

Human Rights issues are also a huge concern of mine. We need to strengthen our Sanctuary and Shield laws and enshrine protections like marriage equality.

Oregon’s budget is in shambles, but it’s not irreparable. We need to tax giant corporations to increase our revenue and we need to prioritize education, healthcare, and housing when we decide spending.

Residents: What are the gaps and shortcomings in state services and how would you address them?

None of our state systems are working as well as they should be. We all know social services are broken and underfunded. Funding gaps are partly a revenue issue. Amazon, Walmart, Starbucks, Home Depot, Nike, and others are not contributing a fair amount of taxes due to Oregon’s many tax loopholes. I will address this first through tax equity. Next, we need updates to our systems to make them user-friendly and fast-responding. Pone hold times with the unemployment office are hours long. Career services have little help to offer because there aren’t enough jobs. Taxing giant corporations while encouraging local business growth is one facet of needed improvements.

Collaboration: How would you work with other legislators on a statewide basis to find solutions to common problems? Give us an example of a time you worked on a collaborative solution.

The issues that are currently most pressing are non-partisan issues. We all need healthcare. We all need housing. We all need to be able to afford the basics. When I was working on SB 1516, we had bipartisan support. This bill regulated how private surveillance companies can use our sensitive data. No one wants to be spied on, and focusing on that aspect of the bill is how I found common ground regardless of party.

Federal government: How have recent actions by the federal government affected your goals and priorities, if at all?

One of my most important responsibilities as a legislator in Salem will be to defend the rights of Oregonians from a federal government that is no longer obeying the laws of our country. I would love to only work on state-level issues, but I see that we need strong people at the state level to protect us from the federal administration’s attacks on our communities: particularly immigrants and trans people. I’ve already begun building partnerships with other legislators who actually have spines and will work with me to stand up and fight for Oregonians’ rights.

Life experience: Outside of any elected experience in your background (if any), what other experiences in life have prepared you for this role?

My work as a 911 dispatcher trained me to be to calm even in crisis and to be able to think rationally through emergencies. I loved that job because I could send help to everyone, regardless of their background.

My work in Salem on surveillance legislation prepared me better than anything else could have. Not only did I live through the daily processes required to move bills through the assembly, but I made connections with staff and lawmakers who are already prepared to work with me for positive change.

KC Huffman    

Party: Democrat

Age: 51

Residence: fSpringfield

Education: High School: Reedsport High; College: Linfield College; Law School: University of Oregon School of Law

Occupation: Attorney and high school baseball coach

Prior elected experience:  I have not held elected office, but for a large part of my time as an attorney I practiced Local Government Law where I represented local governmental entities/agencies and elected officials

Family status: Married to my wife Tristyne and we have 4 children

Key endorsements:  For this primary election, I decided not to seek endorsements.  I understand the benefit of endorsements in a general election because of the wider array of public policy positions each candidate holds, but at the primary level I would prefer people to judge the candidates by what we say and do ourselves, rather than what other outside interests may think about us.

Qualifications: What in your background would make you the best representative for your race?

As an attorney for over 25 years, I’ve learned how to work with people and to analyze situations for strengths and weaknesses in order to negotiate with the other side, even when there doesn’t appear to be much common ground. What I’ve learned is there are almost always points of agreement that can be used to build upon to reach a favorable resolution.  I’ve also lived in Springfield for 23 years and have a good understanding of our background and what we can continue to strive for.

Priorities: What would your top three goals be if elected and how would you accomplish them?

Affordability for Oregonians.  Affordability in health care, in housing, in education, and in how we decide to implement taxes.  I would like to examine how we have been allocating funds for prior programs to determine whether the programs are working well at their current funding levels, are underfunded, or are overfunded.  I believe before we look for new sources of revenue, we should make sure we’re using our existing sources as efficiently as possible.  I would welcome the chance to serve on the committees responsible for oversight and allocation of resources.

Residents: What are the gaps and shortcomings in state services and how would you address them?

There are several, but as an example, our homeless population shows our housing and health care are not operating at sustainable levels.  I believe the way to address problems is to find out the cause and then work to change it.  Education is a critical piece of every community. The more educated we are, the more likely we are to find employment that will allow us to purchase homes and obtain the necessary health care we need.  This will, in turn, help reduce the number of homeless.  I fully support assisting those who are already experiencing difficulties with lack of shelter, food, work, etc., but we also need to address the root causes so we can do more than treat the symptoms.

Collaboration: How would you work with other legislators on a statewide basis to find solutions to common problems? Give us an example of a time you worked on a collaborative solution.

I look forward to talking with members of all parties.  I would first want to get to know people by grabbing coffee or lunch.  I believe it’s a lot easier to get things done when you know something about the people you’re working with.  I don’t expect to agree on everything, but if I can get a better understanding of why other legislators feel the way they do about particular issues, I believe it will make it easier to reach some common ground.

One of the best examples of collaboration I’ve seen and been a part of was when I was representing the Metropolitan Wastewater Management Commission (MWMC “We Clean Water”).  The MWMC is the local government entity that deals with all the wastewater produced in Eugene, Springfield, and parts of unincorporated Lane County. The Commission is made up of 1 Eugene City Counselor, 1 Springfield City Counselor, 1 Lane County Commissioner and 4 other members of the public.  During my time representing MWMC we had far right, far left, and centrist members who served.  When we were all in the room together, I saw the extra effort people put into giving due consideration to everyone’s thoughts.  While individual members still disagreed on what or how to proceed on issues, it was clear everyone had the opportunity to contribute.  As a result, even when decisions were not unanimous, I felt the decisions were more likely to succeed because of the process.  I would take a similar approach to legislating.

Federal government: How have recent actions by the federal government affected your goals and priorities, if at all? 

I find myself getting frustrated and wanting to immediately react to many of the recent decisions made at the federal level.  What I’ve made myself do is to take a moment to find the central issue, aside from the hyperbole, and then ask myself how I feel about it.  By doing that I feel I’ve positioned myself to have a better ability to discuss the issue rationally.

Life experience: Outside of any elected experience in your background (if any), what other experiences in life have prepared you for this role?

I’m a husband and father and those roles have taught me patience, perspective, and humility.

I’m a high school baseball coach and that has taught me the value of preparation.

I’m a community volunteer and have served on many boards of directors (Lane Memorial Blood Bank, Alvord-Taylor Independent Living Services, Oregon Community Credit Union, etc.) and these experiences have taught me the value of collaborative thinking.

I grew up in Reedsport with not a lot, but I knew that getting a good education would provide me with opportunities to succeed.  I’m now in a position where I can help provide those opportunities for others and I would like to be able to give back by serving in the Legislature.

Kori Rodley

Party: Democrat

Age: 59

Residence: Springfield

Education: Lane Community College, University of Oregon

Occupation: Administration, Planning, & Operations–Lane County Developmental Disabilities Services

Prior elected experience: Springfield City Councilor, 2021-present

Family status: married to Teri Schlesinger– 4 adult children: Ashley, Lucy, Lillian (died in 2014), and Stuart; 2 grandchildren: Calvin (9) & Penny (5)

Key endorsements: Lane Professional Firefighters IAFF #851, Oregon Nurses Association, Oregon Education Association-PAC, Ironworkers Local 29, Oregon AFSCME, UFCW555, Western States Carpenters, Basic Rights Oregon-PAC, Oregon Trial Lawyers Association, Oregon Working Families Party, Oregon Labor Federation AFL-CIO, SEIU, Sheet Metal Workers Local 16, The Victory Fund, Congresswoman Val Hoyle, Rep. Lisa Fragala, Lane County Commissioners Heather Buch & Laurie Trieger, Springfield Councilor Steve Moe

Qualifications: What in your background would make you the best representative for your race?

I graduated from the same high school my parents and grandparents attended, and was the first kid to go on first to multiple community colleges, and then to the University of Oregon. It took me 20 years of tucking my education around working full time and raising my own 3 children as a single, working parent, so I know first hand the stress and challenges of putting food on the table and trying to give my kids every opportunity my parents helped give me. Having served as a city councilor (and in my second term), I am passionate about improving lives for Springfield residents. We have worked hard at the local level to increase housing, improve accessibility and livability in our communities, address difficult workforce issues (Eugene Springfield Fire Governance), and attract and direct funding for necessary services. There is still so much work to do and I have learned how the legislature can both help and hurt these efforts. Not only do I have a deep understanding and love of Springfield, I also understand government at all levels and what it takes to make real change happen. There is much to do, no one single issue is impacting Springfield residents, and I believe it will take experience and steady commitment to get real work done in Salem. 

Priorities: What would your top three goals be if elected and how would you accomplish them?

While a primary goal of the state legislature in 2027 is going to be wrestling with the budget, covering gaps created by the current federal administration, and digging into revenue challenges, I have some other goals as well:

1. Increased flexibility in meeting Climate Friendly & Equitable Cities and middle housing goals–so they would be more compatible with small municipalities like Springfield

2. Stronger worker and workplace safety laws

3. Increased affordable childcare throughout Oregon, particularly in underserved communities

Collaboration: How would you work with other legislators on a statewide basis to find solutions to common problems? Give us an example of a time you worked on a collaborative solution.

I already have some very strong relationships with legislators in Salem–both from my work as chair of the city of Springfield Legislative Committee, and through decades of work in public and community services, and it will be a priority for me to continue to grow relationships and build coalitions. I am a relational, collaborative problem-solver and while a big part of my job as a state representative is to represent the constituents of Springfield, I will also need to be working on challenges and opportunities that impact Oregonians across the state. I cannot give one example because so much of my public service work over the years has been about working through big problems with diverse perspectives at the table (Eugene Springfield Fire Governance, Human Services, Poverty & Homelessness, strengthening funding for Food Insecurity, and more.)

Federal government: How have recent actions by the federal government affected your goals and priorities, if at all?

I mentioned above that Oregon (and Springfield) have definitely had to respond and defend our values and priorities with the overreach and defunding coming from the federal government and this will continue into the next legislative session. We also need to continue working for and delivering on issues that are impactful to Oregonians: affordable and accessible healthcare, support for public education, affordable housing, and what I call general livability concerns–rising costs, job layoffs, and transportation challenges are all impacting people in this current environment and the state legislature has a big role to play in addressing these issues.

Life experience: Outside of any elected experience in your background (if any), what other experiences in life have prepared you for this role?

I am a life-long Oregonian, raised in a Douglas County logging family, and I’ve spent the majority of  my adult life living and working in Lane County. I attended the University of Oregon, Portland Community College, and Lane Community College; and have spent more than twenty-five years working in nonprofit management and local government. I currently live in Springfield, Oregon and am part of the management team at Lane County Development Disabilities–working in administration, strategic planning, and human resources.

I have spent decades volunteering and working on task forces, committees, boards, and projects to improve the lives of local residents and have built many authentic relationships through this work. My depth of experience and understanding of issues and opportunities is one of the strengths I bring to the table. I was elected to serve as a Springfield City Councilor, representing Ward 3 in 2020 and re-elected in 2024; and I am the first out LGBTIQ2S+ person to serve on the council. I’ve spent my tenure serving as chair and vice-chair of the Springfield Economic Development Agency (SEDA), past chair & vice-chair of the Lane County Human Services Commission, as well as serving on the Home Consortium Board and the Fire Governance Board. I’ve also served as a voting member of the League of Oregon Cities General Policy Committee. 

My spouse Teri and I have four adult children and 2 grandkiddos; along with Bob the Beagle and several cats and live in the heart of Springfield.