Dear friends and neighbors, With four kids in Seattle Public Schools, I know our public schools are underfunded: we must increase support for the state’s 1.1 million K-12 students. My top ...
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Senate Majority Leader Jamie Pedersen grew up in Puyallup, graduated from Puyallup High School and worked at McDonald’s to help put himself through Yale College, where he studied Russian and history, and graduated summa cum laude. After spending a year living in Russia and collecting oral histories of Soviet Afghan war veterans, Jamie attended Yale Law School. He clerked on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit and then returned to Seattle – and Capitol Hill – in 1995. He practiced corporate law at Preston Gates & Ellis (now K&L Gates) for 17 years. Since May 2012, he has been Vice President and General Counsel at McKinstry, a Seattle-based construction and engineering firm with substantial expertise in green building.
Jamie was elected to the House of Representatives in 2006 and was appointed to the Senate in December 2013 and elected in 2014, 2018, and 2022. He served four years as chair of the Senate Law & Justice Committee. In November 2024, he was elected Senate Majority Leader after serving three years as Majority Floor Leader. He continues to serve on the Ways & Means Committee and the Rules Committee.
Read Sen. Pedersen’s full biography here.
