LaVonne Griffin-Valade was born on 1952 or 1953 and is an American politician and author who served as the 29th Oregon Secretary of State from 2023 to 2025.
16 Facts About LaVonne Griffin-Valade
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Previously, LaVonne Griffin-Valade was the Portland City Auditor and auditor for Multnomah County, Oregon.
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LaVonne Griffin-Valade has published four crime fiction novels as well as other essays and stories.
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LaVonne Griffin-Valade's mother worked in a mill and her father was a truck driver and member of the Teamsters.
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LaVonne Griffin-Valade was raised in a farmhouse between Dayville and Mount Vernon before her family moved to John Day.
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LaVonne Griffin-Valade attended Grant Union High School in John Day, but got married between her junior and senior years of high school and did not graduate.
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LaVonne Griffin-Valade worked in the juvenile department of Crook County, Oregon, as an administrative assistant before attending Western Oregon University.
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LaVonne Griffin-Valade worked in Marion County, Oregon, as an elementary school teacher and mentoring homeless youth and in Washington County, Oregon, with youth in foster care who were aging out of the system.
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In 1998, LaVonne Griffin-Valade was hired by the Multnomah County Auditor's Office as a senior management auditor.
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LaVonne Griffin-Valade was elected the auditor of Multnomah County in 2006, taking office in January 2007.
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LaVonne Griffin-Valade has published essays in Oregon Humanities Magazine and a story in the 2019 Clackamas Literary Review.
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On June 28, Governor Tina Kotek appointed LaVonne Griffin-Valade to serve as secretary of state for the remainder of Fagan's four-year term, through January 2025.
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LaVonne Griffin-Valade has stated that she does not plan to run for a full term in the 2024 election.
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Eight of the affected members sued LaVonne Griffin-Valade to be restored to the ballot.
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The group sued LaVonne Griffin-Valade to have Trump removed from the ballot.
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LaVonne Griffin-Valade has two children from her first marriage and two children with her second husband, Tom LaVonne Griffin-Valade.