Vanessa Kritzer

Vanessa Kritzer is the Democratic candidate for the Washington House of Representatives, District 45-Position 2, facing Republican John P. Gibbons in the November 3, 2026 general election.[1][2] Her campaign website says she has served nearly seven years on the Redmond City Council, including as council president, and is executive director of the Washington Association of Land Trusts.[3]

Vanessa Kritzer's campaign website says she grew up in Redmond's Bridle Trails neighborhood and now lives in Education Hill with her two young children.[3] It says she graduated from Vassar College with a bachelor's degree in political science and Latin American and Latino/a studies, and began her career as a field organizer for Barack Obama's 2008 presidential campaign.[3] She later led a coalition of nearly 60 organizations at the Latin America Working Group and served as director of digital strategy at the League of Conservation Voters.[3]

The site says Kritzer earned a Master of Public Administration and an MBA at the University of Washington, where Governor Jay Inslee appointed her as the student member of the Board of Regents, and that she later worked at Microsoft and served as a Redmond planning commissioner.[3] She says she is running to invest in early childhood education, schools and other resources for families.[3]

Researched from the cited sources on 2026-10-21. Not yet independently fact-checked.