Pamela Anderson (politician)

Pamela Anderson was born on October 23, 1950 in Fargo North Dakota. Growing up in Minnewaukan North Dakota she became class president in her junior and senior years and graduated valedictorian of her class. She married Wayne T. Anderson, a practicing lawyer in Fargo for 35 years, and had 3 children Justin, Meredith, and Murphy. Wayne died on July 12, 2013. Pamela has 4 grandchildren.[2]

She studied at the University of Dakota and obtained both her bachelor’s and master’s in economics.[3] During her time at university she became Delta Gamma Sorority’s president. In 1973 She and Wayne had moved back to Fargo where she pursued a career in banking. During the years 1973-1990 Pamela became the Vice president of US Bank.[3] She left US bank in 1990 and started a career at Wells Fargo the same year. She worked at Wells Fargo from 1990 to 2005 where she was the senior vice president regional trust manager.[3] In 2005 she retired from Wells Fargo and in 2014 she got into the world of politics where she became North Dakota’s 41st district’s representative.

Pamela Anderson first ran for North Dakota’s 41st district for the democrat ticket in 2014 and defeated incumbent republican Bette Grande coming in at 2,639 votes to Grande’s 2,347.[4] Anderson ran for re-election in 2018 and won her re-election bid, getting the most votes compared to her competitors at 3,368.[4] Some votes on legislation that Pamela Anderson has voted on are voting yes to authorize the sale of alcohol on Sunday mornings, yes to both reducing income tax and exempting burial fees and costs for the spouses and dependents of military veterans, yes to passing a bill that amends civil asset forfeiture laws to prohibit seizure without conviction.[5] One bill that she sponsored and ultimately got passed was the authorization of marijuana for medical use.[5] Some pieces of legislation that Anderson voted no on were lowering the income tax for individuals and corporations and lowering the tax to extract oil.[5] Pamela Introduced a bill to increase the legal age of using tobacco products to 19 years of age unless the individual is active military and penned a letter explaining her ideas on how to help small businesses that are being affected to Covid-19.[5][6][7]

• Official biography