10 Facts About Randy Leonard

Charles Randall 'Randy' Leonard was born on 1952 and is a politician in the US state of Oregon.

Randy Leonard was a member of the Oregon Legislative Assembly from 1993 to 2002 and served as a city commissioner in Portland from 2002 through 2012.

In 1985, Randy Leonard was elected President of the Portland Firefighters Association.

Randy Leonard was elected as the Portland Firefighters President four times, serving in that position until 1998.

In 1998, because of term limits, Randy Leonard became the first person in Oregon history to run for the Oregon House of Representatives while serving as a sitting State Senator.

Randy Leonard was elected to the Portland City Council in 2002, in a special election held to fill a vacancy caused by the resignation of then-commissioner Charlie Hales.

Randy Leonard was sworn in as a Portland city commissioner in front of the Smith Memorial Center in the South Park Blocks on November 26,2002, by city auditor Gary Blackmer.

Randy Leonard was the Commissioner-in-charge of the Fire Bureau during his final four years on the city council.

In 2011, Randy Leonard announced that he would not run for re-election in 2012, and his final term on the city council ended on December 31,2012.

Randy Leonard had struggled for several years with addiction, achieving brief episodes of sobriety with her father's help; he spoke publicly of her addiction in the 2007 documentary Finding Normal.