Treasurer Ben Westlund
State Treasurer
Ben Westlund was elected as State Treasurer in 2008. Prior to that, he was elected state Senator from 2003 to 2008, and elected state Representative from 1996 to 2003. Westlund earned a degree in education and history from Whitman College in Walla Walla, Washington. He then worked as a business analyst in Portland before moving to Central Oregon, where he helped start a successful mining venture and then became a rancher and agribusinessman, selling cattle genetics through his company, High Country Herefords.
Westlund was born in Long Beach, California, and raised in Lake Oswego. He and his wife, Libby, live near Bend. They have two children.
