Jessica Vega Pederson | |
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Chair of the Multnomah County Board of Commissioners | |
Assumed office January 1, 2023 | |
Preceded by | Deborah Kafoury |
Member of the Multnomah County Board of Commissioners from the 3rd district | |
In office January 1,2017 –December 31,2022 | |
Preceded by | Judy Shiprack |
Succeeded by | Diane Rosenbaum |
Member of the OregonHouseofRepresentatives from the 47th district | |
In office January 14,2013 –January 3,2017 | |
Preceded by | Jefferson Smith |
Succeeded by | Diego Hernandez |
Personal details | |
Born | 1975 (age 48–49) Crown Point,Indiana,U.S. |
Political party | Democratic |
Education | Loyola University Chicago (BA) |
Jessica Vega Pederson is a Democratic politician in the U.S. state of Oregon. She served in the Oregon House of Representatives,for two two-year terms,from January 2013 through 2016. From 2017 to 2022,Vega Pederson served as a county commissioner for Multnomah County,the state's most populous county. In 2022,Vega Pederson was elected to serve as county chair,and took office in 2023.
Vega Pederson was born in Crown Point,Indiana,a small town near Chicago,and raised in a Mexican-American family. [1] Vega Pederson graduated from Loyola University Chicago,where she majored in informational systems management and technology. [2]
Prior to running for political office,Vega Pederson was a project manager for a tech company. [1] Her listing within the Voter's Pamphlet read:"I am not a politician. I'm a mom and a professional. My husband has his own small business. We work hard and we want a better future for our kids." [2] She and her husband have two small children and live in East Portland. [3]
In November 2013,she was elected to the Oregon House of Representatives,for District 47,for a two-year term starting in January 2013. [1] She was re-elected two years later.
In September 2015, [4] Vega Pederson announced that she would not seek re-election to the House, [5] and would instead run for election to the Multnomah County Commission,for a seat that was due to become open as a result of term limits requiring its then-holder Judy Shiprack to leave the seat. [4] She won election to the commission in the May 2016 primary,representing county District 3,for a four-year term to begin in January 2017. She was sworn in on January 3,2017. [6] [7] On May 19,2020,Jessica Vega Pederson was re-elected to a four-year term on the Multnomah County Board of Commissioners. [8] On November 8,2022,Vega Pederson was elected Multnomah County Chair,defeating fellow commissioners Lori Stegmann (in the primary) and Sharon Meieran (in the general election),for a four-year term to begin in January 2023. [9]
Pederson made her residency in far East Portland a part of her political appeal,however she moved to a $1.2 million,5 bedroom house in Southwest Portland in April 2024. [10]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Nonpartisan | Jessica Vega Pederson | 164,914 | 54.03% | |
Nonpartisan | Sharon Meieran | 138,034 | 45.23% | |
Other | Write-ins | 2,263 | 0.74% | |
Total votes | 305,211 | 100.00% |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Nonpartisan | Jessica Vega Pederson | 77,529 | 41.95% | |
Nonpartisan | Sharon Meieran | 33,651 | 18.21% | |
Nonpartisan | Sharia Mayfield | 27,713 | 14.99% | |
Nonpartisan | Lori Stegmann | 23,210 | 12.56% | |
Nonpartisan | Bruce Broussard | 12,895 | 6.98% | |
Nonpartisan | Joe Demers | 9,544 | 5.16% | |
Other | Write-ins | 290 | 0.16% | |
Total votes | 184,832 | 100.00% |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Nonpartisan | Jessica Vega Pederson | 37,244 | 98.42% | |
Other | Write-ins | 596 | 1.58% | |
Total votes | 37,840 | 100.00% |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Nonpartisan | Jessica Vega Pederson | 29,986 | 97.96% | |
Other | Write-ins | 623 | 2.04% | |
Total votes | 30,609 | 100.00% |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Democratic | Jessica Vega Pederson | 10,379 | 95.4 | |
Write-in | 505 | 4.6 | ||
Total votes | 10,884 | 100% |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Democratic | Jessica Vega Pederson | 12,662 | 64.8 | |
Republican | Maggie Nelson | 6,773 | 34.7 | |
Write-in | 93 | 0.5 | ||
Total votes | 19,528 | 100% |
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