1. Jackie Winters was an American Republican politician in the US state of Oregon.
13 Facts About Jackie Winters
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Jackie Winters served as a state senator, representing the 10th district in Salem.
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Jackie Winters died of lung cancer on May 29,2019.
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Jackie Winters began her lifelong interest in citizen involvement in public policy as she listened to her parents' discussions around the table, first in Topeka, Kansas where she was born, and later in Portland, Oregon where her family moved in 1943.
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Jackie Winters attended Portland Public Schools and continued her education through the Oregon State University System's Continuing Education coursework, with an emphasis on Intergovernmental Relations.
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Jackie Winters began her governmental service in 1959 at University of Oregon Medical School in the medical records unit and later joined the staff of the Portland Model Cities Program.
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In 1985, Winters opened her first Jackie's Ribs restaurant, in Salem.
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Jackie Winters was elected to the Oregon State Senate in 2002.
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Jackie Winters won reelection in 2006,2010,2014 and again in 2018.
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Jackie Winters ran for the US Congress in 2004, losing in the Republican primary to Jim Zupancic, who went on to lose in the general election to incumbent Darlene Hooley.
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On November 15,2017, Jackie Winters was elected as Senate Minority Leader to replace Ted Ferrioli.
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Jackie Winters became the first black legislative leader in the state.
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The HOA board Jackie Winters serves on allegedly contacted the Salem-Keizer School District and ordered the bus for a disabled girl to pick her up from a road outside the HOA subdivision instead of her home.