Christine “Tina” Kotek is an American politician serving as the 39th governor of Oregon since 2023. Kotek was born on September 30, 1966, in York, Pennsylvania, to Jerry Albert Kotek and Florence.
Is Tina Kotek lesbian?
Tina Kotek is a trailblazer who served as the first openly lesbian speaker of a State House and now has made history again by becoming one of the first out lesbian governors in our nation’s history.
Kotek and her wife, Aimee Wilson, met in 2005 and married in a private ceremony in 2017. They have lived together in Portland’s Kenton neighborhood since 2005. Kotek was one of the Oregon Legislative Assembly’s only openly LGBTQ+ members and the first lesbian speaker of a state house
Before being elected to office, Kotek worked as a public policy advocate for the Oregon Food Bank and then as policy director of Children First for Oregon. She co-chaired the Human Services Coalition of Oregon during the 2002 budget crisis and co-chaired the Governor’s Medicaid Advisory Committee.
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