Jennifer Plumb
Member of the Utah State Senate
from the 9th district
Assumed office
January 1, 2023
Preceded byDerek Kitchen (Redistricting)
Personal details
Political partyDemocratic
Occupationphysician

Jennifer Plumb is an American politician and pediatric trauma doctor from Salt Lake City, Utah. She represents Utah's 9th senate district in the Utah State Senate.

Education and career

Jennifer Plumb is a pediatric emergency department doctor.[1] She has a Masters' degree in public health.[2] She is the director of Utah Naloxone, which she founded in 2015, after her brother died of a heroin overdose. As an opioid mitigation advocate she lobbied for legislation on syringe exchanges and naloxone access.[3] She is also a member of Utah's opioid abuse task force.[4]

Political career

Jennifer Plumb ran against incumbent Senator Derek Kitchen in 2018 and lost.

In a rematch of that contest, Plumb defeated Kitchen by just 61 votes in the democratic primary election for senate district 9 in June 2022.[5] Facing only a write-in candidate, she won 99% of the votes in the 2022 Utah Senate election.[6] Plumb will serve as assistant minority whip in the Utah Senate starting in 2023.[7]

Senator Plumb's page on the Utah Senate website

References

  1. ↑ "Jen Plumb builds her lead over Sen. Derek Kitchen, but it remains oh so tight," The Salt Lake Tribune, July 7, 2022
  2. ↑ "A doctor focused on preventing drug overdose deaths in Salt Lake City now plans to run for Jim Dabakis’ state Senate seat," The Salt Lake Tribune, March 11, 2018
  3. ↑ Apgar, Blake (2022-06-03). "Millennial vs. Gen X: Age emerges as an issue in Kitchen-Plumb Utah Senate race". The Salt Lake Tribune. Retrieved 2023-02-27.
  4. ↑ "600 lives saved, overdoses reversed through partnership with law enforcement agencies," KSL, Dec. 5, 2022
  5. ↑ "How Jen Plumb plans to help her progressive district in a GOP supermajority world," KUER, July 15, 2022
  6. ↑ Hudson, Vanessa. "With Votes Finalized, Here are the Utah Midterm Results Students Should Know About". The Daily Utah Chronicle. Retrieved 2023-02-27.
  7. ↑ "Meet the women running the all-female leadership teams in Utah’s government," Deseret News, Nov. 29, 2022
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