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83rd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2025 Regular Session
Senate Concurrent Resolution 12
Sponsored by Senator NASH, Representative LEVY B (Presession filed.)
SUMMARY
The following summary is not prepared by the sponsors of the measure and is not a part of the body thereof subject
to consideration by the Legislative Assembly. It is an editor’s brief statement of the essential features of the
measure as introduced.The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability
standards.
Digest: Honors Robin A. Church for her outstanding service to the people of the State of
Oregon. (Flesch Readability Score:63.6).
Recognizes and honors Robin A. Church for her outstanding service to the people of the State
of Oregon.
CONCURRENT RESOLUTION
Whereas Robin A. Church was born on September 29, 1954, in La Grande, Oregon; and
Whereas the seed of Robin A. Church’s future interest in public service was planted on No-
vember 7, 1972, when she voted in the first United States presidential election open to 18-year-olds;
and
Whereas Robin A. Church began her service to the people of the State of Oregon when she
joined the Union County Sheriff’s Office in 1987; and
Whereas in 1991, Robin A. Church left the Union County Sheriff’s Office and joined the Union
County Clerk’s Office, where she served as Chief Deputy and Deputy Clerk; and
Whereas Robin A. Church was appointed Union County Clerk in 2007, filling the unexpired term
of outgoing clerk Nellie Bogue-Hibbert; and
Whereas Robin A. Church was first elected Union County Clerk in 2009, and would ultimately
hold the position for more than 16 years; and
Whereas Robin A. Church served as the president of the Oregon Association of County Clerks
in 2019; and
Whereas Robin A. Church was an early advocate for mail-in voting and an instrumental force
behind Union County’s transition to mail-in elections after Oregonians voted in 1998 to expand
mail-in voting to primary and general elections; and
Whereas Robin A. Church helped count more than 750,000 ballots during her tenure as Union
County Clerk; and
Whereas Robin A. Church retired as Union County Clerk in January 2023, leaving behind a
legacy of efficiency and integrity; and
Whereas Robin A. Church was awarded the National Association of Secretaries of State
Medallion Award in 2024 by Oregon Secretary of State LaVonne Griffin-Valade, acknowledging her
unflappable dedication to democracy and further cementing her critical importance to the history
of elections in Oregon; now, therefore,
Be It Resolved by the Legislative Assembly of the State of Oregon:
That we, the members of the Eighty-third Legislative Assembly, recognize and honor Robin A.
Church for her outstanding service to the people of the State of Oregon.
NOTE:Matter in boldfaced type in an amended section is new; matter [italic and bracketed] is existing law to be omitted.
New sections are in boldfaced type.
LC 1237