Val Hoyle is not your traditional politician. Val lives in West Eugene with her husband of 18 years. She has two children in our local public schools and got involved in politics to be a voice for our community, our families and our children’s future.
Val’s top priority is using her 25 years of business experience to find ways to help small businesses create good-paying jobs. From her time working with the Export Council of Oregon, helping local companies learn how to sell their products in competitive international markets, Val developed the skills to develop an economic strategy that includes a combination of loans, grants, and renewable energy initiatives to help local employers.
Realizing that increasing health care costs hurt both businesses and families, Val changed careers to bring her business experience to the table to help improve affordable health care access to our community. She currently is the Director of the United Way of Lane County’s 100% Access Coalition, a group of private businesses, non-profits, government agencies and community leaders working together to solve the problem of affordable, quality, appropriate health care access in Lane County. She is able to translate real life problems (affordable health insurance for small business, access to health care after losing a job and crippling health care bills) into making good public policy and legislation that makes sense for regular working Oregonians -- not special interests.
The best way to ensure our next generation has a better standard of living is to strengthen our public schools. Val’s background working on education issues with Stand for Children has prepared her to be a strong advocate for our local schools and colleges.
These problems – unemployment, gaps in health care access, crime rates, shrinking school budgets - continue to have a very direct impact on our lives and Val Hoyle is doing something about it. She’s taking our side and working hard to revive our economy, ensure that families can stay safe and healthy, and make sure our children have opportunity through a world class education system.
Jobs, health care, education and public safety. Val Hoyle is focusing on these issues because that’s what so many Oregonians - and the people of her district - care about.
Before becoming our State Representative, Val served on the Federal District Export Council of Oregon, the Federal Advisory Board for International Trade for Small Business, the Outdoor Industry Women’s Coalition, and the Eugene Chamber of Commerce’s International Trade Roundtables.