Lynn Snodgrass

Lynn Snodgrass ( Grenz; born c. 1951) is an American politician who served in the Oregon House of Representatives from 1995 to 2001. A Republican, she was Speaker of the Oregon House of Representatives from 1999 to 2001.

Early life Snodgrass was born in Oregon, growing up in Milwaukie. She attended Oregon State University, and earned an elementary teaching degree at Portland State University. She competed for the Miss Oregon crown in 1969, losing to Margie Elaine Huhta. She competed again, and was crowned Miss Oregon in 1971. In 1974, she married Drake Snodgrass. , they owned a local nursery and landscaping company. They moved to Boring, Oregon in the early 1980s. She held a seat on the Damascus school board, and served on Portland's Metro Home Builder Association. She supported Senate Bill 600, an early version of Measure 37, and a bill requested by the Associated Oregon Industries that would have limited student activity fees for political purposes. The Oregon League of Conservation Voters asserted that she cast environmentally-friendly votes 7 percent of the time in the 1997 session, and 0% in 1995. She led the campaign to send Measure 65 to the voters in 1997. At the time, many Republicans felt Lundquist was too accommodating to Democratic Governor John Kitzhaber. Snodgrass was the first Portland-area Speaker since Vera Katz, whose term in that position ended in 1991.

Snodgrass ran unsuccessfully for Oregon Secretary of State in 2000.