45 Notable alumni of
Lewis & Clark College
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Lewis & Clark College is 1192nd in the world, 426th in North America, and 399th in the United States by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 45 notable alumni from Lewis & Clark College sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Monica Lewinsky
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- businesspersonfashion designerentrepreneurpsychologistsocial psychologist
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Monica Samille Lewinsky is an American activist. Lewinsky became internationally known in the late 1990s after U.S. President Bill Clinton admitted to having had an affair with her during her days as a White House intern between 1995 and 1997. The affair and its repercussions (which included Clinton's impeachment) became known as the Clinton–Lewinsky scandal.
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Penn Badgley
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- voice actortelevision directorchild actorfilm actortelevision actor
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Penn Dayton Badgley is an American actor and producer. He is known for his roles as Dan Humphrey in The CW teen drama series Gossip Girl (2007–2012) and Joe Goldberg in the Netflix psychological thriller series You (2018–present).
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Muhammad bin Nayef
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- politicianminister
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Muhammad bin Nayef Al Saud, colloquially known by his initials MBN or MbN, is a former Saudi Arabian politician and businessman who served as the crown prince and first deputy prime minister of Saudi Arabia from 2015 to 2017 and as the minister of interior from 2012 to 2017. Prince Muhammad is a grandson of the founding monarch, King Abdulaziz, and son of the former crown prince Nayef bin Abdulaziz. Muhammad and Nayef were the first father-son duo in Saudi history to serve as crown prince. Muhammad's uncle King Salman named him as crown prince on 29 April 2015. On 21 June 2017 the king appointed his own son, Mohammed bin Salman, as crown prince and relieved Muhammad bin Nayef of all positions. He has been in detention since 6 March 2020 along with his uncle Ahmed and his half-brother Nawwaf.
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Markie Post
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- film produceractorfilm actortelevision actorvoice actor
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Marjorie Armstrong Post, known professionally as Markie Post, was an American actress. Her best known roles include bail bondswoman Terri Michaels in The Fall Guy on ABC from 1982 to 1985; public defender Christine Sullivan on the NBC sitcom Night Court from 1985 to 1992; Georgie Anne Lahti Hartman on the CBS sitcom Hearts Afire from 1992 to 1995; and Barbara ‘Bunny’ Fletcher, the mother of Detective Erin Lindsay (Sophia Bush), on the NBC drama series Chicago P.D. from 2014 to 2017.
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Kate Brown
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- lawyerpolitician
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Katherine Brown is an American politician and attorney who served as the 38th governor of Oregon from 2015 to 2023. A member of the Democratic Party, she served three terms as the state representative from the 13th district of the Oregon House of Representatives from 1991 to 1997, three terms as the state senator from the 21st district of the Oregon Senate from 1997 to 2009, three terms as majority leader of the Oregon Senate from 2003 to 2009, and two terms as Oregon Secretary of State from 2009 to 2015. She assumed the governorship upon the resignation of John Kitzhaber in 2015. She was elected to serve out the remainder of his gubernatorial term in the special election in 2016 and was reelected to a full term in 2018.
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Weyes Blood
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- composerfilm directorsinger
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Natalie Laura Mering, known professionally as Weyes Blood, is an American singer, songwriter, and musician. She was primarily raised in Doylestown, Pennsylvania. She has been performing her own material under variations of the name Weyes Blood since 2003.
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Heidi Heitkamp
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- politicianlawyerdirectoractor
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Mary Kathryn "Heidi" Heitkamp is an American lawyer and politician who served as a United States senator from North Dakota from 2013 to 2019. A member of the North Dakota Democratic–Nonpartisan League Party, she was the first woman elected to the U.S. Senate from North Dakota. Heitkamp served as the 20th North Dakota tax commissioner from 1986 to 1992 and as the 28th North Dakota attorney general from 1992 to 2000. As of 2025, she is the last Democrat to hold or win statewide and/or congressional office in North Dakota.
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Bill Walker
- Enrolled in Lewis & Clark College
- In 1973 graduated with Bachelor of Science in business management
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
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William Martin Walker is an American attorney and politician who served as the 11th governor of Alaska, from 2014 to 2018. He was the second Alaska-born governor, after William A. Egan.
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Genevieve Gorder
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- interior designer
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Genevieve Gorder is an American television host and interior designer. She was one of the Designers on Trading Spaces, She hosted Bravo's Best Room Wins. Previously, she hosted Stay Here on Netflix, Genevieve's Renovation, "White House Christmas," and Dear Genevieve on HGTV and judged HGTV's Design Star.
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Brian Lindstrom
- Occupations
- film directorscreenwriter
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Brian Lindstrom is a documentary filmmaker whose films focus on addiction, incarceration, mental illness, and police brutality.
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Earl Blumenauer
- Enrolled in Lewis & Clark College
- In 1970 graduated with Bachelor of Arts
- In 1976 graduated with Juris Doctor
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Earl Francis Blumenauer is an American lawyer, author, and politician who served as the U.S. representative for Oregon's 3rd congressional district from 1996 to 2025. The district includes most of Portland east of the Willamette River.
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Haben Girma
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- lawyeradvocate
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Haben Girma is an American disability rights advocate, and the first deafblind graduate of Harvard Law School.
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Namik Paul
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- modelactortelevision actor
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Namik Paul is an Indian actor who primarily works in Hindi television. He made his acting debut in 2015 with Qubool Hai portraying Ahsaan. He earned recognition with his portrayal of Shravan Malhotra in Ek Duje Ke Vaaste and his dual portrayal of Shiv Kapoor and Krish Khanna in Ek Deewaana Tha.
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Naomi Pomeroy
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- television personalitycookrestaurateur
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Naomi Pomeroy was an American chef and restaurateur. Pomeroy in 2009 was listed by Food & Wine magazine as one of America's Top 10 Best New Chefs and in 2014 won the James Beard Foundation Award for Best Chef Northwest.
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Ted Gaines
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- politician
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Edward Moore Gaines is an American politician and businessman serving as a member of the California Board of Equalization for the 1st district. He previously served as a California State Senator, representing the 1st Senate district from 2011 to 2019.
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Hussain Al Nowais
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- businessperson
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Hussain Jasim Al Nowais is an Emirati businessman who is chairman of Al Nowais Investments and AMEA Power; and vice chairman of Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank. He is a co-founder and board member of Sandooq Al Watan and board member of Rotana Hotel Management Corporation.
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Jeanne M. Holm
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- writermilitary officer
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Major General Jeanne Marjorie Holm was the first female one-star general of the United States Air Force and the first female two-star general in any service branch of the United States. Holm was a driving force behind the expansion of women's roles in the Air Force.
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Quinn Slobodian
- Enrolled in Lewis & Clark College
- In 2000 graduated with Bachelor of Arts in study of history
- Occupations
- historianuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Quinn Slobodian is a Canadian historian specialising in modern Germany and international history. He is currently Professor of International History at Boston University. Previously, he was the Marion Butler McLean Professor of the History of Ideas at Wellesley College and a Residential Fellow at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University.
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Sagala Ratnayaka
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- politician
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Sagala Gajendra Ratnayaka is a Sri Lankan politician who is the National Organiser for United National Party in Sri Lanka he had been serving as the chief of staff to the President of Sri Lanka and National Security Advisor from 2022 to 2024. He had served as the Cabinet Minister of Law and Order and Southern Development (2015-2018); Youth Affairs and Southern Development (2019-2019); Chief of Staff to the Prime Minister of Sri Lanka and Member of Parliament for Matara District.
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Pete Ward
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- baseball player
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Peter Thomas Ward was a Canadian-born professional baseball player who appeared in 973 games over nine seasons in Major League Baseball as a third baseman, outfielder and first baseman for the Baltimore Orioles (1962), Chicago White Sox (1963–1969) and New York Yankees (1970).
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Katherine Paul
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Katherine Paul is a Swinomish/Iñupiaq singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist based in Portland, Oregon. Her music is influenced by post-rock, alternative rock, and Native American traditional music. She has released an EP and three albums under the moniker Black Belt Eagle Scout. Her self-titled EP as Black Belt Eagle Scout was released in June 2014. Her debut studio album, Mother of My Children, was first released by Portland tape label Good Cheer Records in 2017, then re-released in September 2018 by Saddle Creek Records. On April 26, 2019, Saddle Creek released a Black Belt Eagle Scout single titled "Loss & Relax" on a seven-inch vinyl backed with the B-side "Half Colored Hair".
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Amber Case
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- anthropologist
- Biography
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Amber Case is an American cyborg anthropologist, user experience designer and public speaker. She studies the interaction between humans and technology.
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Beverly Clarno
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- politician
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Beverly A. Clarno is an American politician who served as the 27th Oregon Secretary of State from 2019 to 2021. She was the only Republican statewide official in Oregon at the time. Clarno previously served as a member of the Oregon House of Representatives and Oregon State Senate. As of 2024, she is the most recent Republican to have held statewide office in Oregon.
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Jules Bailey
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- politician
- Biography
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Jules Bailey is an American politician who served in the Oregon House of Representatives from 2009 to 2014, representing inner Southeast and Northeast Portland. Bailey also served on the County Commission for Multnomah County, Oregon from June 2014 to December 2016. In 2016, Bailey ran for mayor of Portland in 2016, losing to Ted Wheeler.
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Matt Wuerker
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- 1956-.. (age 69)
- Occupations
- journalistcartoonist
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Matt Wuerker is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American political cartoonist and founding staff member of Politico.
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Don Bonker
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- politician
- Biography
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Donald Leroy Bonker was an American politician. A member of the Democratic Party, he served as a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1975 to 1989, representing Washington's third Congressional district.
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Robert B. Pamplin, Jr
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- businessperson
- Biography
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Robert Boisseau Pamplin Jr. is an American businessman, philanthropist, and minister. He is also noted as an educator, historic preservationist and author.
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Patrick Combs
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- writer
- Biography
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Patrick Combs is an American author and speaker. He is the author of Major in Success and Man 1 Bank 0 which was adapted into a one-man live stage show that has toured the United States and Europe. Combs has performed Man 1 Bank 0 to sold out audiences in Ireland and on Broadway.
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Marcia S. Krieger
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- lawyerjudge
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Marcia Smith Krieger is a senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Colorado.
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Jane Nishida
- Enrolled in Lewis & Clark College
- In 1977 graduated with Bachelor of Arts in international relations
- Occupations
- officialcivil servantlawyer
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Jane Toshiko Nishida is an American lawyer and government official. She served as the assistant administrator in the Office of International and Tribal Affairs of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency during the presidency of Joe Biden. Nishida served as the acting Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency from January 20 to March 11, 2021, and again from January 1 to January 20, 2025. Nishida also served as acting Deputy Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency from October 5 to December 31, 2024.
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Dave Somers
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- biologist
- Biography
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David J. Somers is an American politician and fisheries biologist serving as the Snohomish County Executive, an office he has held since 2016. Somers previously served on the Snohomish County Council, representing the 5th district in the eastern portion of the county.
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Ronald A. Marks
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- writer
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Ronald Anthony Marks FRSA is a former senior Central Intelligence Agency official and Capitol Hill Staffer. He is currently Chairman and CEO of ZPN Cyber and National Security Strategies and an academic focused on Cyber and Intelligence policy issues. His book "Spying in America in the Post 9/11 World: Domestic Threat and the Need for Change," published by Praeger Publishing, focuses on the vast expansion of intelligence collection in America and the need for careful oversight.
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R. Niels Marquardt
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- diplomat
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R. Niels Marquardt is a retired American diplomat and past CEO of the American Chamber of Commerce in Australia.
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Rick Metsger
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- politician
- Biography
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Richard Thomas Metsger served in the Oregon State Senate from 1999 to 2011. President Barack Obama nominated Rick Metsger to serve on the board of the National Credit Union Administration on May 16, 2013. The U.S. Senate confirmed Metsger on August 1, 2013, and he took the oath of office on August 23, 2013. He served as the ninth NCUA board chairman from May 1, 2016, through January 22, 2017.
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Tuckerman Babcock
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Venezuela - Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Tuckerman Babcock is a political strategist who served as chairman of the Alaska Republican Party from 2016 to 2018.
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Lori L. Lake
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- novelist
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Lori L. Lake is an American writer of fiction, mainly about lesbian protagonists. She is also an editor, writing instructor, and former publisher.
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Charles A. Blanchard
- Enrolled in Lewis & Clark College
- Graduated with Bachelor of Science in chemistry
- Occupations
- lawyer
- Biography
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Charles Alan Blanchard is a United States lawyer who served as General Counsel of the Army from 1999 to 2001, and who has served as General Counsel of the Air Force, from 2009 to 2013.
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Chet Bowers
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- writerenvironmentalistuniversity teacher
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C. A. Bowers (June 4, 1935 – July 13, 2017) was an American educator, author, lecturer and environmental activist. He wrote 27 books that focus on the cultural, linguistic, and technological roots of the current ecological crisis as well as the educational reforms necessary to promote greater ecological awareness.
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Donald C. Johnson
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- 1949-.. (age 76)
- Occupations
- diplomat
- Biography
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Donald C. Johnson is an American career diplomat who served as U.S. Ambassador to three countries; Equatorial Guinea, Cape Verde and Mongolia.
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Mary Jean Thompson
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- diplomat
- Biography
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Mary Jean Thompson is an American honorary consul appointed by the ruling monarch and prime minister of the Principality of Liechtenstein and accredited by the Department of State of the United States of America. She serves the Pacific Northwest from the consulate in Portland, Oregon. She is the fifth consul representing Liechtenstein in the world and the only woman serving in that capacity.
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Gordon Faber
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- politician
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Gordon C. Faber was an American politician and businessman in the U.S. state of Oregon. A native of Pennsylvania, he grew up in Hillsboro, Oregon. He joined the U.S. Air Force during the Korean War and was a small business owner before becoming a real estate agent and entering politics. He served on Hillsboro's budget committee and city council before serving two terms as mayor from 1993 to 2001. The Gordon Faber Recreation Complex in the city's northeast corner is named in his honor.
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Ruthe Farmer
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- manager
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Ruthe Farmer is an American policymaker and activist. She is focused on inclusion and leveraging existing infrastructure to scale change for girls' participation in technology and engineering. She is founder and CEO of the Last Mile Education Fund and also serves as the Chief Evangelist for CSforAll and she was a senior policy advisor for tech inclusion at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy in the Obama administration and Chief Strategy and Growth Officer at the National Center for Women & Information Technology.
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Elizabeth Winzeler
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- researchermicrobiologistgeneticist
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Elizabeth Ann Winzeler is an American microbiologist and geneticist. She is a professor in the Division of Host-Microbe Systems and Therapeutics of the School of Medicine at the University of California at San Diego. Although she works in a variety of different disease areas, most research focuses on developing better medicines for the treatment and eradication of malaria.
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Nick Kahl
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- politician
- Biography
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Nicholas Kahl is an attorney and Democratic politician from Oregon. He served in the Oregon House of Representatives from 2009 to 2011. He is a practicing lawyer in Portland, Oregon.
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Ina Law Robertson
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- educatorphilanthropist
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Ina Law Robertson was an American educator and social worker. In 1898 she opened dormitory-style housing for women, known as the Hotel Eleanor, which grew into a large and lasting community program in Chicago.
