State Representative Deborah Boone

Representative Deborah Boone was appointed on August 4, 2004 to serve the remainder of the term for House District 32 when Elaine Hopson resigned in July 2004. Deborah Boone was re-elected by the citizens of House District 32 in November 2004 to serve as their representative. Deborah Boone was born and raised in Portland, Oregon. She graduated from Grant High School and attended University of Washington majoring in oceanography. She later changed her major to painting and transferred to Portland State University graduating from PSU with 2 B. S. degrees in Art and Psychology. Deborah worked for 16 years as a legislative assistant to seven individual legislators, with 8 of those years in House District 32. She is the co-owner of a construction company with her husband, and she has owned and operated a restaurant and catering business. She worked as a watershed council coordinator for 6 years, taught parenting classes and a welfare to work program at Clatsop Community College and worked as an educational assistant in Seaside schools. Deborah served as a Clatsop County Commissioner and was appointed by Governors to the Oregon Ocean Resources Management Task Force, Juvenile Justice Advisory Committee, Healthy Stream Partnership and the Oregon Children’s Trust Fund board. She served on Doernbecher Children’s Hospital Foundation Board, was a member of Head Start Policy Council, and was a founding member of the Oregon Chapter: National Committee for the Prevention of Child Abuse. She currently serves her community as a volunteer firefighter. Deborah and her husband live on the family tree farm and have raised two children.