Randy Leonard is a politician in the U.S. state of Oregon. He is currently a city commissioner in Portland, serving his third term on the Portland City Council.
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Prior to serving in Portland city government, Leonard served in the Oregon Legislative Assembly and was a firefighter with the Portland Fire Bureau.
In 1994, he was elected to the Oregon State Senate to serve Multnomah County in District 9 for a four-year term.[1] A Democrat, he served in the Senate from 1995 through the 2002 special sessions of the legislature, with re-election in 1998.[2][3][4][5]
Leonard was sworn in as a Portland city commissioner in front of the Smith Memorial Center in the South Park Blocks on November 26, 2002, by city auditor Gary Blackmer.[6]
Leonard and his second wife, Katie, live in East Portland.
On May 8, 2011, Leonard's daughter from his first marriage, 31-year-old Kara Marie Leonard, committed suicide by shooting herself in the head.[7] She had struggled for several years with heroin addiction, achieving brief episodes of sobriety with her father's help; he spoke publicly of her addiction in the 2007 documentary Finding Normal.[8]
He has two other adult children, Ryan and Kyle, and one grandchild, Cole.