Katie Eyre Brewer

Katie Eyre attended high school in Milford, Pennsylvania, and graduated from Delaware Valley High School.[1] She graduated from California State University, Northridge with a bachelor of science degree in Accounting.[1][2] A Certified Public Accountant, she was married to Bill Brewer and has five children, working as an accountant and tax adviser for Harsch Investments.[1][2][3]

A resident of Hillsboro, Oregon, she filed to run for the Oregon Legislature in June 2010 as a Republican for House District 29.[1] In November 2010, she defeated Democrat Katie Riley with 9,035 votes to 8,009 to win the seat to replace Chuck Riley.[4] Chuck Riley, Katie Riley's husband, had declined to run for re-election for the seat to run for a seat in the Oregon State Senate.[5] Prior to her run for the House, she served on the Hillsboro Planning Commission where she helped save a heart attack victim's life by performing CPR at a meeting of the commission in November 2010.[6]

During the 2011 session she served as vice-chairperson of the revenue committee and was also a vice-chairperson on a ways and means subcommittee.[3] Brewer declined to run for Congress in August 2011 in the special election to replace David Wu who had resigned.[7] She divorced during the session and changed her name to Katie Eyre.[8] While in the House she was an opponent of the Columbia River Crossing project to replace the Interstate Bridge between Portland and Vancouver.[8] She lost her bid a re-election in November 2012, losing to Ben Unger.[9] She then returned to the Hillsboro Planning Commission.[10][11]