Jim Roth
Politician, Person
1968 –
Who is Jim Roth?
Jim Roth is an American politician from the state of Oklahoma. A Democrat, Roth was appointed by Republican Governor Mary Fallin to serve on the Oklahoma State Election Board as the panel's lone Democrat. As of September 2011, the Governor's appointment of Roth was awaiting confirmation by the Oklahoma Senate.He was rejected by the Republican controlled Senate. Previously, Roth served as one of three members of the Oklahoma Corporation Commission from June 2007 through January 2009. He had been appointed to the seat by Governor of Oklahoma Brad Henry.
Prior to his state wide positions, Roth had served as an Oklahoma County Commissioner, a post to which he had been elected in 2002 and re-elected in 2006.
Born in Prairie Village, Kansas, Roth attended Shawnee Mission East High School, Kansas State University, and Oklahoma City University School of Law. He then went on to work as a Chief Deputy and Attorney to the Oklahoma County Commission and the Oklahoma County Clerk.
Roth is openly gay and was the first ever openly LGBT person to hold a state-wide elected office in Oklahoma.
In his bid to serve out the last two years of the corporation commission term to which he'd been appointed, Roth was defeated 52%-48% by Republican Dana Murphy.
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- Born
- Dec 24, 1968
Prairie Village - Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- Kansas State University
- Oklahoma City University
- Oklahoma City University School of Law
- Lived in
- Oklahoma
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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