Noemi Legaspi runs for House #22

Noemi Legaspi Launches Campaign for Oregon State Representative, District 22
Working Mom. Community Advocate. Ready to Lead.
By Noemi Legaspi campaign,

WOODBURN, OR – Today, long-time community leader Noemi Legaspi announced that she is running for the Republican nomination for Oregon House District 22. The daughter of Mexican immigrants, Legaspi is a mother and mental health clinician who has spent nearly two decades working with and protecting children and families in Marion County.

“As a therapist, I’ve always measured success by how well I can help families overcome the challenges in their lives,” said Legaspi. “State politicians clearly don’t have the same focus. For too long, the problems facing Oregonians—rising costs, crime, homelessness, struggling schools—have gone unanswered by our politicians. I’m done waiting for them to do something about it.

While I’ve worked alongside kids and parents navigating some of life’s hardest circumstances, I’ve watched politicians make it harder, whether by underfunding schools or ignoring the youth mental health crisis. I’m tired of politics getting in the way of people building better lives.”

Legaspi served for almost seven years on the Woodburn School Board and District Budget Committee, where she focused on practical solutions over partisan agendas. Despite a national movement to take police out of schools, her leadership helped keep trained School Resource Officers after she built a transparent process to engage the community. Legaspi also championed reinstating Woodburn High School’s College & Career Center in 2007 to help students plan for life after graduation, and she oversaw the negotiation and adoption of a major contract with teachers and staff without any layoffs.

In her professional life, Legaspi operates Anabel’s House Children and Family Services, providing bilingual counseling to children, couples, and families. She also served as a court‑appointed custody evaluator for Marion County, has consulted on early learning programs, and volunteered as a school and youth sports coach.

Legaspi will focus her campaign around early literacy and career preparation, expanded access to behavioral health care with accountability and proven results, restoring local control to schools, respecting parents, and addressing the rising cost of living by making housing more available and opposing unnecessary tax increases. She will also demand accountability in homelessness spending by tying assistance to programs that get people sober and strengthening the foster care system so children are safe, families receive the support they need, and kids are not left to fall through the cracks.

Former Representative Tracy Cramer, who previously served House District 22, endorsed Legaspi’s campaign. “Noemi has been Woodburn’s leading advocate for improving public education, and that’s just a fraction of what she’s done for our kids and families,” said Cramer. “She always puts children first and does it without regard to personal or political cost.”

Marion County Sheriff Nick Hunter added, “Marion County deserves leaders who listen, lead with compassion, and produce common sense results. Noemi’s commitment, knowledge, and experience have helped her deliver real and necessary change in our communities.”

Legaspi is a first generation college graduate, achieving a master’s degree in marriage and family therapy from George Fox University. She earned bachelor’s degrees in human development and psychology from the University of California, Davis. Her prior experience includes serving as an adjunct instructor and community liaison at Pacific University’s Woodburn campus and working as a college and career specialist, substitute teacher, and coach in the Woodburn School District. A longtime resident of Woodburn, she and her family are active in local church ministries and community organizations.

Learn more at www.NoemiForOregon.com.

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