| HOYLE, Val, a Representative from Oregon; born in Fairfield, Solano County, Calif., February 14, 1964; graduated from Merrimack High School, Merrimack, N.H.; attended Bunker Hill Community College, Boston, Mass.; B.A., Emmanuel College, Boston, Mass., 1992; sales representative; consultant; nonprofit executive; research fellow, Wayne Morse Center for Law and Politics, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oreg.; member of the Oregon state house of representatives, 2009-2017, majority leader, 2013-2015; commissioner of the Oregon state bureau of labor and industries, 2019-2023; elected as a Democrat to the One Hundred Eighteenth Congress (January 3, 2023-present). |