Serving as Southwest Washington’s representative in Congress from 2011-2023, Jaime was repeatedly recognized for her effectiveness in promoting responsible forest management and preserving the beauty of our state.

She helped advance bipartisan legislation to curb the threat of wildfires and helped pass new funding for wildfire suppression and firefighting. Jaime’s bills to protect endangered salmon runs and upgrade and improve forest roads were signed into law.Tens of thousands of jobs supported by working forests in rural Washington would have been impacted if not for her successful legislation to protect access to these lands from onerous regulations – a bipartisan legislative feat that earned her the National Association of State Foresters’ highest honor, the Bernard L. Orell Award for Partnership. She secured support to protect wildlife habitat, and worked with members of both parties on legislation to fight the ocean acidification that is degrading coastal shellfish habitat.

Raised in rural Clark County, Jaime grew up swimming in in the Lewis River, fishing at Battle Ground Lake, and participating in 4-H. She attended Prairie High School in Vancouver, where she played for the basketball team, and went on to graduate from the University of Washington in Seattle. She represented parts of Clark and Cowlitz County in the Washington State House of Representatives from 2007-2010, where she served in her party’s leadership and led efforts to expand affordable health care for Washingtonians and provide tax relief to business owners serving in the military.

After leaving Congress, Jaime joined the board of the National Kidney Foundation and completed a Fellowship-in-Residency at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Institute of Politics. She currently serves as a strategic advisor to the Children’s Hospital Association. Jaime lives on 5 acres in Clark County with her husband, Dan, and their three children, Abigail, Ethan and Isana.