11 Facts About Amanda Fritz

Amanda Fritz was born on April 1958 and is a British-American politician and retired psychiatric nurse from the US state of Oregon.

Amanda Fritz was the first candidate to win public financing under Portland's Clean Elections system in 2006, though she lost to incumbent Dan Saltzman in the first round of that year's election.

Amanda Fritz was elected to City Council in the November 2008 election.

Amanda Fritz was born in England and grew up in Leeds, West Yorkshire.

Amanda Fritz moved to the United States in 1979, where she attended nursing school in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and then moved to Rochester, New York.

In 1999, Amanda Fritz was noted as a Planning Commission member who valued an emerging online list for contributing to the discourse on planning in the city.

In 2008, Amanda Fritz became the first non-incumbent to successfully run under Portland's public financing system.

Amanda Fritz was the first candidate to qualify for public funds under the program, in her first race, when she challenged incumbent Dan Saltzman in the 2006 election.

Amanda Fritz has been an advocate of the public financing system since that first race, and wrote in support of it after winning the 2008 election.

In June 2013, a shuffling of bureaus among the commissioners by new Mayor Charlie Hales saw Amanda Fritz assigned the Parks Bureau and the Bureau of Development Services, in place of her previous assignments.

Steve Amanda Fritz had worked for 27 years as a psychiatrist at Oregon State Hospital in Salem.