Meet Courtney Neron Misslin

"As an educator, parent, and legislator, I’m listening to our communities and focusing on our future. As your State Senator, I'm dedicated to investing in quality education, making childcare affordable, improving community safety, addressing the cost of living, and protecting access to reproductive healthcare." - Courtney

A Shared Vision For a Brighter Future

As a teacher and a mother, Courtney is focused on the future. She knows firsthand the importance of a strong public education, affordable housing, accessible healthcare, and environmental stewardship. Courtney is working to create a safer, healthier Oregon, one full of opportunity for this generation and all the ones to come.

Courtney served as our State Representative for six years and now represents us in the State Senate. She has a proven record of delivering on her campaign promises. In her first term, she helped deliver the Student Success Act and Paid Family Medical Leave. Throughout the pandemic, she was responsive to our community needs, directing funds to homeless shelters and free medical care in the district, supporting small businesses, and expanding broadband access to ensure continued education and economic development.

Since 2019, Courtney has provided compassionate, collaborative, and steady leadership. She knows there is still work to do to make Oregon safer, more equitable, more sustainable, and more promising for all Oregonians.


Senator Neron Misslin has helped secure:

  • Caps on insulin costs and established the Prescription Drug Affordability Board

  • Expanded mental healthcare and behavioral supports for students and communities

  • Healthcare for nearly all low-income Oregonians and Paid Family & Medical Leave

  • Responsible Gun Safety policies and violence-prevention investments

  • Investments in prevention and response to homelessness

  • Comprehensive reproductive healthcare access for all Oregonians

  • High quality childcare for more low-income families

  • Strong environmental protections, including bans on fracking and offshore drilling

  • Unprecedented investments in pre-K through 12, higher education and workforce development

  • Funding to increase the number of Court Appointed Special Advocates for children navigating foster care

  • State Funding for local projects including: the Sherwood Pedestrian Bridge, the Wilsonville I-5 Bridge upgrade study, transit-oriented workforce housing, Just Compassion Homeless Shelter, Wilsonville Community Sharing, and broadband infrastructure throughout the district.

Building a Better Oregon through Leadership

In Salem, Courtney served as Vice-Chair of the House Education Committee before transitioning to the Senate Education Committee. She is focused on ensuring that students and educators have the resources they need to succeed, while improving accessibility and affordability in postsecondary and higher education.

As co-chair of the Childcare Caucus she is committed to removing barriers to care and investing in childcare and preschool access. Her comprehensive cradle-to-career vision, combined with her unwavering commitment to education, ensures that Oregon students and families have a strong champion in the legislature.

Courtney currently serves as Chair of the Natural Resources Ways and Means Committee and is a member of the full Ways and Means Committee. She also serves on the Senate Education Committee; Veterans, Emergency Management, Federal and World Affairs Committee; and the Commerce and General Government Committee.

Previously, Courtney served on the House Joint Natural Resources Budget Committee, House Veterans and Emergency Preparedness Committee, House Education Committee, House Gambling Regulations Committee, House Early Childhood and Human Services Committee, and House Housing Committee.

“My priority is listening to the people of my district and standing up for them in Salem. Advocacy grounded in lived experience and community input is central to my work, as I continue to fight for investments, policies, and protections that help people thrive.” -Courtney

Courtney's Story

Growing up in Tigard, Courtney was inspired by her parents and teachers, who modeled compassion and encouraged her to stand up for what’s right. She feels deeply connected to the people, places, and stories that make Senate District 13 so special, having watched the region grow and change over her lifetime.

The farm where she picked blueberries as a child in the 1980s, the field where she picked dahlias for bouquets in 2004, and the hayride that she and her kids took to the pumpkin patch in the 2010s are all now at the edge of the Urban Growth Boundary and have recently been developed into needed housing. Courtney believes this region deserves thoughtful, responsive leadership that protects our farmland, rivers, and wildlife, while planning wisely for strategic economic priorities and inevitable growth.

Courtney attended Tigard schools, earned a degree in French from the University of Oregon, and completed her Master’s in Teaching at Pacific University. She student-taught in the Yamhill-Carlton and Tigard-Tualatin School Districts and went on to teach: French and Spanish at Tualatin High School, Reading and Special Education in Milton-Freewater, and world languages at her alma mater, Tigard High School.

Courtney is raising her two children in Wilsonville. They are grateful for the amazing educators and the beautiful landscapes and neighborhoods that they call home. Decades of disinvestment in our schools, the need for improved school safety and special education funding, and the impacts of housing insecurity and food insecurity on her students and their families, motivated Courtney to step away from the classroom and run for the Oregon Legislature in 2018. In her first term she helped pass the Student Success Act, bringing billions of dollars of new funding to Oregon schools to address class size, mental health supports, and achievement. But she knows the work is ongoing. She continues to champion education and the needs of vulnerable Oregonians in our state capitol.