NEIL GOLDSCHMIDT was born in Eugene, Oregon and graduated from the University of Oregon, where he was student body President. He earned a law degree from the University of California,…

BARBARA ROBERTS was born in Corvallis, Oregon. She attended Portland State University from 1961 to 1964 and Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government in 1989. She worked as…

Theodore (Ted) Kulongoski was born in rural Missouri in 1940 and grew up in St. Louis in a Catholic boys’ home. After graduating from high school, he enlisted in the…

John Kitzhaber, M.D., was sworn in as governor of Oregon on January 10, 2011. After graduating from college, Kitzhaber returned to Oregon to study medicine at the University of Oregon…