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"Jen Plumb builds her lead over Sen. Derek Kitchen, but it remains oh so tight," The Salt Lake Tribune, July 7, 2022 and 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. She is also a member of Utah's opioid abuse task force."600 lives saved, overdoses reversed through partnership with law enforcement agencies," KSL, Dec. 5, 2022 She is also single handedly credited for killing the vaping and e-cig industry in the State of Utah with SB61. Effectively wiping out hundreds of small local businesses, in collaboration and conjunction with the LDS Church, and big tobacco manufactures like, Philip Morris, Altria, ETC.https://le.utah.gov/~2024/bills/static/SB0061.html
Political career Jennifer Plumb ran against incumbent Senator Derek Kitchen in 2018 and lost.
In a 2022 rematch of that contest, Plumb defeated Kitchen by 61 votes in the Democratic primary election for the redistricted 9th district."How Jen Plumb plans to help her progressive district in a GOP supermajority world," KUER, July 15, 2022 She faced a write-in candidate in the general election and won with 99.4% of the vote. In 2023, Plumb began serving as Assistant Minority Whip in the Utah Senate."Meet the women running the all-female leadership teams in Utah’s government," Deseret News, Nov. 29, 2022
Election History
External links Senator Plumb's page on the Utah Senate website
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