Mayor of Seattle Ed Murray
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Mayor Ed Murray

 

 

 

 

Mayor Murray will be saying a few remarks at Climate Solutions 7th Annual Breakfast on May 4. 

BIO

Edward B. Murray became Mayor of Seattle on January 1, 2014 and promptly set the tone for his administration by signing an executive order raising the minimum wage of City government employees to $15 an hour along with a vow to deliver the same raise to all minimum wage workers in Seattle. He followed through on that promise by convening a committee comprised of business, labor, and non-profit stakeholders to work out the terms of a deal that would set the highest minimum wage in the nation. For this work, he was named one of Politico Magazine's "50 thinkers, doers and dreamers who really matter in this age of gridlock and dysfunction."

Prior to being elected Mayor of Seattle, Murray served as a Washington State legislator representing the 43rd Legislative District for 18 years. He was the prime sponsor of Washington state's historic marriage equality law, as well as the prime sponsor of the 2002 Safe Schools bill protecting sexual minority youth in schools and a landmark bill banning discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation signed into law in 2006. During his time in the House, he drove legislation that doubled funding for low-income housing.

That same dedication to social justice shaped Murray's mayoral agenda of making Seattle a safe, affordable, vibrant and interconnected city for all. Murray lives in Seattle's Capitol Hill neighborhood with his husband of 22 years, Michael Shiosaki.

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