Lori Chavez-DeRemer
American politician
Lori Michelle Chavez-DeRemer (; née Chavez; born April 7, 1968) is an American politician and businesswoman who served as the United States secretary of labor from 2025 until her resignation in 2026. A member of the Republican Party, Chavez-DeRemer served as the U.S. representative for Oregon's fifth congressional district from 2023 to 2025 and as the mayor of Happy Valley, Oregon, from 2011 to 2019.
Chavez-DeRemer graduated from California State University, Fresno, with a Bachelor of Business Administration in 1990. She worked various jobs before being elected to the Happy Valley City Council in 2004. Chavez-DeRemer was elected mayor of Happy Valley in 2010, becoming the first woman and the first Latina to serve as the city's mayor. She was reelected in 2014. In 2016, she ran in that year's Oregon House of Representatives election for the state's 51st district, losing to the Democratic nominee, Janelle Bynum. She lost to Bynum again in the 2018 election for the district.
By 2021, Chavez-DeRemer had begun campaigning in the 2022 United States House of Representatives election for Oregon's fifth congressional district. She won the Republican primary in May and defeated the Democratic nominee, Jamie McLeod-Skinner, in November.
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