Lauren Necochea | |
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Chair of the Idaho Democratic Party | |
Assumed office March 12, 2022 | |
Preceded by | Deborah Silver (Acting) |
Member of the
Idaho House of Representatives from the 19th district | |
Assumed office December 2019 | |
Preceded by | Mat Erpelding |
Personal details | |
Born | Lauren Bentley Smith Boise, Idaho, U.S. |
Political party | Democratic |
Children | 2 |
Education |
Pomona College (
BA) Princeton University ( MPA) |
Lauren Necochea ( née Smith) is an American politician. A member of the Democratic Party, she has served in the Idaho House of Representatives since 2019. She represents the 19th district, which includes a portion of Boise, the state capital. Since 2022, she has served as chair of the Idaho Democratic Party. [1]
Necochea was born Lauren Bentley Smith in Boise, Idaho to Dr. Michael Smith and Susan Smith. [2] Her father is a dentist and her mother founded the Idaho Women's Charitable Foundation.
She earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in economics from Pomona College and a Master of Arts in public affairs from Princeton University. [3] Necochea was the recipient of a Fulbright Scholarship.
After earning her master's degree, Necochea worked as a program evaluator for the Baltimore City Health Department. [4] She later returned to Boise. She worked as the director of the Idaho Center for Fiscal Policy and Idaho Voices for Children. [5] Necochea was on the steering committee for the Idahoans for Healthcare campaign, which supported the 2018 Proposition 2 campaign to expand Medicaid in Idaho. [1]
In December 2019, Necochea was appointed to the Idaho House of Representatives by Governor Brad Little, succeeding Mat Erpelding, who resigned from the House to take a lobbying position. [6] [7] She was elected in the 2020 and 2022 House of Representatives elections.
In March 2022, she was elected chair of the Idaho Democratic Party, replacing acting chair Deborah Silver. [1] Necochea announced February 2024 that she will not run for re-election and focus on being chair of the Idaho Democratic Party. [8]
In 2006, she married Alejandro José Necochea, a Yale School of Medicine-educate internal physician. [2] Necochea lives in Boise, Idaho with her husband and two daughters. [9]
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