Senate Senator Courtney Neron Misslin is a lifelong Oregonian and environmental champion with a deep respect for her state’s unique beauty. She is the co-vice chair of the Legislative Environmental Caucus, where she collaborates on a wide variety of environmental policies. She is a champion for critical climate action and adaptation, sustainable transportation solutions, and environmental health. She helped pass the strongest Right to Repair legislation in the nation, extended producer responsibility for batteries, and Oregon’s new wildlife conservation tax on lodging. She successfully championed the modernization of Oregon’s Toxic Free Kids Act and more recently passed a bill to study PFAS in biosolids applied to agricultural lands. She also serves on the Task Force on Municipal Solid Waste in the Willamette Valley.
Senator Neron Misslin co-chairs the Joint Committee on Natural Resources Ways and Means. Her current focus is on Virtual Power Plants, Diverting Food Waste from landfills, and phasing out PFAS. She served as a State Representative from 2019-2025 until her appointment to the Oregon Senate in early 2025. The Willamette and Tualatin Rivers run through the heart of Senate District 13. This district comprises the fast-growing communities of King City, Sherwood, Tigard, and Wilsonville, located at the edge of urban growth on some of the top farmland in the state.
