Occupation: Senator
Occupational Background: Past President & CEO, Urban League of Portland; faculty & counselor, PCC
Educational Background: Masters Degree, Oregon State University; Bachelor of Science, Portland State University
Prior Governmental Experience: Chair, Joint Ways & Means Subcommittee on Human Services (2007); Co-Chair, Senate Committee on Health & Safety in Portland Public Schools; Governor's Council on Drugs & Alcohol; Supreme Court Task Force on Racial/Ethnic Issues in the Judicial System, Implementation Committee; Attorney General's Crime Victim Assistance Advisory Committee; State Representative 1985-1999
Community Involvement: Project Hope/ N-NE Portland; volunteer counselor prisons & juvenile detention centers; American Red Cross Breakfast of Champions; OMSI Board; church choir director
MARGARET CARTER
Working for North-Northeast Portland
- MARGARET CARTER is working for economic stability, quality public education, affordable homeownership in N-NE Portland (SB 777) and to prohibit discrimination (SB 725)
- MARGARET CARTER is working to keep a jobs Skills Center in N-NE Portland to provide industrial workforce training and technical skills
- MARGARET CARTER is committed to protecting vital human services for our most vulnerable – the ill, disabled, poor, children and elderly: those least able to care for themselves
- MARGARET CARTER is working for health reforms (SB 329), mental health parity (SB 1) better integration of physical and mental health care for improved patient outcomes (SB 1089)
- MARGARET CARTER is working for environmental protection, consumer education; and to restrict use of chemicals in personal care products and toys co-related to birth defects (SJM 8)
- MARGARET CARTER is working for human dignity, for improved quality of life -- and our community
Partial list of awards to Margaret Carter
2008 Heart of the Community Award –
Hands On Greater Portland
2007 OHCA Senior Champion - for exemplary service to
Oregon's most vulnerable populations
2006 OBA Oregon Statesman of the Year
Oregon League of Women Voters Distinguished Service
PSU Outstanding Alumna 2002
Elliott Human Rights Award
Jefferson HS Image Award
Portland Observer Commitment to Youth
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(This information furnished by Friends of Margaret Carter.)