Rep. Dave Hunt
Oregon House Speaker Dave Hunt is serving his fourth term in the Oregon House of Representatives representing the Clackamas County communities of Gladstone, Oak Grove, Jennings Lodge, Johnson City, and North Clackamas.
A Northwest native, Speaker Hunt attended Sheldon High School in Eugene and Columbia University in New York City, where he majored in Political Science and American Government.
Speaker Hunt served as a Congressional staffer for a decade, working as district director for Congresswoman Darlene Hooley from Oregon and Congressman Brian Baird from Southwest Washington.
Since 2001 Speaker Hunt has been employed as Executive Director of the Columbia River Channel Coalition and the Association of Pacific Ports, working to enhance trade and job opportunities.
First elected to the House in 2002, Speaker Hunt was elected by his Democratic colleagues as Majority Leader in 2006. In 2009, he was elected Speaker of the House.
A former member of the Oregon City School Board, Hunt has led the fight to reduce class sizes, restore critical academic subject areas, and fully implement the Oregon Quality Education Model. He has also authored legislation to fully fund the Head Start pre-kindergarten program and to create Oregon’s first Rainy Day Fund to protect services during future economic downturns.
Speaker Hunt served a two-year term as the youngest-ever national President of American Baptist Churches USA, which represents 5,500 churches and 1.5 million members. He has also been involved with the Oregon City Rotary Club, Clackamas County Committee on Citizen Involvement, Jennings Lodge Community Planning Organization, Friends of Jennings Lodge and Candy Lane Schools Foundation, and both the North Clackamas and Oregon City Chambers of Commerce
Speaker Hunt, 41, and his wife, Tonia, Executive Director of the Children’s Center of Clackamas County, have been married for 16 years and have two children: Andrew, age 13, and Emily, age 9.
