Catherine McMullen is our Clackamas County Clerk! She is a voter-focused elections administrator, a lifelong public servant, a former union member, a champion for voting rights and Oregon’s Vote-by-Mail, a statutory wedding officiant, a community leader, a wife, and a mother. Catherine and her family have chosen to make Clackamas County and Oregon their home.
Catherine is the oldest of three girls, raised in rural northern California by parents who were entrepreneurs and worked in agriculture, drilling water wells; neither of whom went to college. Catherine has a B.A. from U.C. Davis, a Master in Library and Information Science (MLIS) from University of Washington, and in 2019 received an Executive Master in Public Administration (EMPA) from the Hatfield School of Government at Portland State University. She also holds certification from the Oregon Association of County Clerks (OACC) as a Certified County Clerk (CCC) and Certified Elections Administrator (CEA).
Clerk Catherine McMullen was elected by the citizens of Clackamas County in 2022 and has been an elections administrator since 2015. She began her public service career more than 22 years ago as a public librarian. Catherine started, developed, and fought for the award-winning Voter Education and Outreach Program in 2015, the only local government program of its kind in the state of Oregon. In 2021 Catherine brought her voter engagement effort to Clackamas County; Clackamas Voice has a primary goal of eliminating barriers to citizen access and participation, increasing voter education and transparency in elections processes, and bringing more diverse voices to local-decision making in Clackamas County.
Clerk McMullen is an active member of the Partnership for Large Election Jurisdictions, Property Records Industry Association, and the Oregon Association of County Clerks (OACC). Locally, Catherine is a member of North Clackamas Chamber of Commerce, the Oregon City Business Alliance, and the West Linn Alliance for Inclusion. She leads the OACC working group on Equity and Inclusion and is an active member of the OACC Legislative Committee, working with state legislators to form good public policy around state elections, marriage, language access, and property recording law.
Catherine created the Voter Language Access Program in Multnomah County; hiring bilingual election workers, working in partnership with language communities, and producing resources and information in multiple languages for voters. Catherine and her spouse, Michael have a passion project, Children at Nature Play that celebrates the right of all children to play in nature, and all families to be welcome in outdoor spaces without prejudice.
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