2022 race briefing
Jamie McLeod-Skinner was born in Milwaukee. She holds a civil engineering degree from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, a master’s in city and regional planning from Cornell University, and a law degree from the University of Oregon, and has worked as an attorney and natural resource consultant.
In the May 17, 2022 Democratic primary she defeated incumbent Rep. Kurt Schrader 54.6% to 44.8%. In the November general election, which she contested on the Democratic, Working Families and Independent Party lines, Republican Lori Chavez-DeRemer won 50.9% to 48.8%.
She ran again in 2024 and lost the May 21 Democratic primary to Janelle Bynum, 29.9% to 69.4%. PolRev covered her 2022 campaign, and this page remains as a record of that race.