Standing Up for Oregon

Fighting For Working Families

As a working mom, Courtney understands that supporting working families strengthens our economy and shapes our children’s future. That’s why she has fought for school meal programs that not only improve nutrition and learning outcomes, but also put an average of $1,400 back into family budgets each year, helping cover groceries, rent, and other essentials when children receive breakfast and lunch at school.

Courtney serves on the Oregon Legislative Childcare Caucus, where she focuses on removing barriers to affordable and accessible childcare. During her time in the legislature, Senator Neron Misslin has championed childcare reforms, expanded preschool access, invested in workforce development, and helped pass Oregon’s Paid Family & Medical Leave program.

She passed legislation to ensure that every child in foster care has a well-trained Court Appointed Special Advocate (CASA) by their side, and she continues to fight to maintain critical services for Oregonians of all ages. Courtney remains a strong advocate for parent caregivers and Employment Related Day Care (ERDC) investments so children receive the care they deserve and parents can fully participate in the workforce. We can count on Courtney to continue fighting for working families and vulnerable community members.

When her district was at risk of paying an unfair share of interstate infrastructure costs, Courtney sounded the alarm to remove tolling from the I-5 Bridge over the Willamette in Wilsonville. She remains a strong advocate for parent caregivers, working families, and vulnerable community members, and we can count on her to keep fighting to make Oregon more affordable for everyone.

Responding To Homelessness
And Housing Affordability

Courtney believes everyone deserves a safe, stable place to call home. She knows addressing Oregon’s housing crisis requires both building more homes and protecting the affordable housing we already have, especially as rising costs, limited supply, and gaps in mental health and addiction services push families into instability.

When subsidies expired at the Woodsprings senior housing complex in Tigard, Courtney took action to prevent similar disruptions for Oregonians living in publicly supported housing. She passed HB 3042 to strengthen tenant protections, improve affordability, and increase transparency around rent increases, and worked with manufactured home communities to secure protections for homeowners.

Courtney supports eviction prevention, housing-first strategies, and investments in mental health and addiction treatment, while preserving affordable housing for seniors and residents on fixed incomes. She also continues fighting for state investments in sewer and water infrastructure so communities can build the housing they need.

Championing Affordable Healthcare

Courtney believes investments in mental health and healthcare are investments in families and futures. She has delivered meaningful state investments, from the Student Success Act’s expansion of school-based mental health supports to funding for community resources like Just Compassion Shelter, and continues fighting for wraparound services for those experiencing behavioral health challenges.

She championed investment to open the Clackamas County Stabilization Center and the Washington County Center for Addictions Triage and Treatment (CATT), providing safe places for people in crisis to access care. Courtney will continue advocating for mental health resources in schools and investment in the Clackamas County Recovery Campus, because recovery is possible and sustained support matters.

Courtney believes healthcare is a human right and remains committed to lowering prescription drug costs, protecting Medicaid, and expanding access through mobile and community-based care. She is also a steadfast defender of reproductive freedom and bodily autonomy, and Oregonians can count on her to protect access to abortion care, gender-affirming care, menopause care, comprehensive insurance coverage, and personal medical privacy.

Addressing Community Safety

Courtney advocates for investments in proven, prevention-focused solutions that build safer communities rooted in trust. She has supported expanded mental health resources, voted to fully fund the 9-8-8 mental health crisis line, and introduced legislation to address gaps in Oregon’s response to domestic violence.

She supports common-sense gun safety measures, such as the Reduction of Gun Violence Act (IP 17, 2022), and has backed bipartisan legislation focused on police accountability, wildfire resilience, and oil-by-rail safety. As a member of the School Safety Task Force and the Statewide Fire Safety Policy Council, Courtney has helped advance policies and investments that save lives. She also secured $3 million to begin work on Tigard’s Police and Public Works facility.


Supporting Workers &
Small Businesses

Courtney is dedicated to ensuring Oregon jobs are quality jobs. She understands that high schools, community colleges, and universities are preparing tomorrow’s workforce today, and that workforce training, from construction apprenticeships to childcare, is essential to meeting the economic opportunities ahead.

She has helped pass policies that uplift workforce standards, strengthen labor protections, and ensure fair pay. Courtney authored legislation requiring contractors working on school HVAC improvements to meet strong apprenticeship, safety, and wage standards. She continues to fight for teachers to be able to discuss class size at the bargaining table and for school staff to report workplace injuries without fear. Her focus remains on building an economy where workers are protected, respected, and fairly compensated.

Protecting Our Environment

Courtney brings a lifelong commitment to protecting Oregon’s natural beauty and securing a healthy climate future for the next generation. As Chair of the Natural Resources Ways and Means Committee and a leader in the legislative Environmental Caucus, she has passed legislation at the intersection of environmental protection and public health.

Her work includes modernizing the Toxic Free Kids Act to increase transparency around chemicals and better protect children, co-championing the Right to Repair law to reduce e-waste, and passing toxic-free cosmetics legislation. Courtney has also advanced policies addressing air pollution, pipeline safety, pesticide exposure, and broader environmental health risks.

She continues fighting for stronger toxin standards, clean energy job training, sustainable transportation, responsible land use, and climate resilience—ensuring Oregon’s communities, working lands, and natural resources are protected for future generations.

Confronting Discrimination

Immigrant and refugee Oregonians are central to Oregon’s economy, diversity, and identity. Courtney has worked to strengthen Oregon’s Sanctuary State protections, ensure asylum seekers qualify for in-state tuition, prohibit housing discrimination based on documentation status, expand access to legal assistance, and guarantee that residents can obtain driver licenses.

She remains committed to standing up for immigrant justice and building welcoming communities where civil and human rights are upheld for all.

She centers the voices of Black, Indigenous, and People of Color advocates and supports the work of her colleagues in the BIPOC Legislative Caucus. Courtney is dedicated to helping Oregon’s legislature better reflect and welcome the diversity of identities, backgrounds, and lived experiences across the state.

Investing Responsibly In Education

Courtney has never turned her back on public education. When she left the classroom in 2018, it was to fight for what her students and colleagues needed most: stable funding, mental health supports, and common-sense gun safety laws. She has delivered on those commitments through her work on the Current Service Level calculation, passage of the Student Success Act, and safe storage laws.

As an educator and legislator, Courtney continues to fight for school facilities funding, lifting the cap on special education, fully funding the High Cost Disability Fund, expanding universal school meals statewide, and ensuring more equitable funding for schools serving high-poverty communities. She knows there is still work to do before teachers are paid what they are worth, students have the resources they deserve, and school buildings are healthy and safe, regardless of a district’s income level.

Building Community, Investing Locally

Courtney works tirelessly to ensure vital projects in her district receive the funding they need. Through her leadership, the district has secured:

  • $4 million for the Sherwood Pedestrian Bridge, connecting the community across Highway 99W

  • $1.9 million for transit-oriented workforce housing near the Wilsonville Transit Center

  • $1 million for local health and human services, including Wilsonville Community Sharing, Clackamas Volunteers in Medicine, Community Action of Washington County, a new mobile health van, and the Just Compassion homeless shelter expansion

  • $1 million for broadband infrastructure improvements in Wilsonville, Sherwood, and King City

  • $300,000 for the I-5 Boone Bridge Project cost-to-complete study and ODOT report.

  • A newly installed Kinder Morgan Pipeline automatic shut-off valve at the Willamette River in Wilsonville to protect water quality and community safety

Looking ahead, Courtney’s district advocacy includes:

  • The extension of the Cleanwater Services recycled water line through King City to ease stress on the Tualatin River watershed.

  • Investments in King City Community Park: resurfacing the track and trails to meet ADA standards, rehabilitation of stream bank vegetation, and construction of a park restroom facility.

  • Districtwide wetland rehabilitation and protection.