Julia Reed
Julia Reed (Democratic Party) is a member of the Washington House of Representatives, representing District 36-Position 1. She assumed office on January 9, 2023.
Reed (Democratic Party) ran for re-election to the Washington House of Representatives to represent District 36-Position 1. She won in the general election on November 5, 2024.
Biography
Julia Reed was born in Redmond, Washington. She earned a bachelor's degree from Smith College in 2009 and an MPA from Princeton University in 2017. Her career experience includes working as a social impact consultant for Kinetic West. Previously, she worked in the Obama administration, including at the State Department, in the Political Military Affairs Bureau, and in the Office of Management and Budget. She also worked as a senior policy advisor to the mayor of Seattle.
Reed has been affiliated with the following organizations:[1]
- YMCA Social Impact Center, Board Member and Advocacy Chair
- FUSE Washington, Board Member
- Global Leadership Forum, Board Member
- Truman National Security Project Pacific Northwest Chapter, Member
- 36th LD Democrats, Former Chair
- King County Democrats, Former Vice Chair for Communications
Sponsored legislation
The following table lists bills this person sponsored as a legislator, according to BillTrack50 and sorted by action history. Bills are sorted by the date of their last action. The following list may not be comprehensive. To see all bills this legislator sponsored, click on the legislator's name in the title of the table.
Committee assignments
2023-2024
Reed was assigned to the following committees:
Elections
2024
See also: Washington House of Representatives elections, 2024
General election
General election for Washington House of Representatives District 36-Position 1
Incumbent Julia Reed won election in the general election for Washington House of Representatives District 36-Position 1 on November 5, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | Julia Reed (D) | 98.6 | 66,489 | |
| Other/Write-in votes | 1.4 | 960 | ||
| Total votes: 67,449 | ||||
| If you are a candidate and would like to tell readers and voters more about why they should vote for you, complete the Ballotpedia Candidate Connection Survey. | ||||
Do you want a spreadsheet of this type of data? Contact our sales team. | ||||
Nonpartisan primary election
Nonpartisan primary for Washington House of Representatives District 36-Position 1
Incumbent Julia Reed advanced from the primary for Washington House of Representatives District 36-Position 1 on August 6, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | Julia Reed (D) | 98.4 | 40,426 | |
| Other/Write-in votes | 1.6 | 660 | ||
| Total votes: 41,086 | ||||
| If you are a candidate and would like to tell readers and voters more about why they should vote for you, complete the Ballotpedia Candidate Connection Survey. | ||||
Do you want a spreadsheet of this type of data? Contact our sales team. | ||||
Campaign finance
Endorsements
Ballotpedia did not identify endorsements for Reed in this election.
2022
See also: Washington House of Representatives elections, 2022
General election
General election for Washington House of Representatives District 36-Position 1
Julia Reed defeated Jeff Manson in the general election for Washington House of Representatives District 36-Position 1 on November 8, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | Julia Reed (D) | 75.8 | 55,251 | |
| Jeff Manson (D) | 23.4 | 17,077 | ||
| Other/Write-in votes | 0.7 | 521 | ||
| Total votes: 72,849 | ||||
| If you are a candidate and would like to tell readers and voters more about why they should vote for you, complete the Ballotpedia Candidate Connection Survey. | ||||
Do you want a spreadsheet of this type of data? Contact our sales team. | ||||
Nonpartisan primary election
Nonpartisan primary for Washington House of Representatives District 36-Position 1
Julia Reed and Jeff Manson defeated Nicole Gomez, Waylon Robert, and Elizabeth Tyler Crone in the primary for Washington House of Representatives District 36-Position 1 on August 2, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | Julia Reed (D) | 55.1 | 24,548 | |
| ✔ | Jeff Manson (D) | 13.5 | 6,032 | |
| Nicole Gomez (D) | 10.5 | 4,667 | ||
 | Waylon Robert (D) | 10.4 | 4,652 | |
| Elizabeth Tyler Crone (D) | 9.5 | 4,249 | ||
| Other/Write-in votes | 0.9 | 406 | ||
| Total votes: 44,554 | ||||
| If you are a candidate and would like to tell readers and voters more about why they should vote for you, complete the Ballotpedia Candidate Connection Survey. | ||||
Do you want a spreadsheet of this type of data? Contact our sales team. | ||||
Endorsements
To view Reed's endorsements in the 2022 election, please click here.
Campaign themes
2024
Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
Julia Reed did not complete Ballotpedia's 2024 Candidate Connection survey.
2022
Julia Reed completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2022. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Reed's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
| Collapse all
Julia grew up in Seattle, the Black and bi-racial daughter of two public school educators who instilled in her the importance of public service, empathy, hard work, and collective action. Following college, Julia served in the Obama administration, working at home and abroad with the State Department and the Office of Management and Budget. After returning to Seattle, she served as a senior policy advisor to the Mayor of Seattle, with a focus on workforce development issues. Today, she consults with businesses and nonprofits on expanding workplace diversity, and continues her commitment to developing the skilled workforce our region needs, always with a focus on lifting underrepresented communities, and providing pathways for youth.
A resident of the Lower Queen Anne/Uptown neighborhood, Julia can usually be seen exploring the City on her electric bike. She organized Let Uptown Vote, a successful effort to engage King County Elections on bringing a ballot box in Lower Queen Anne. Inspired by her parents’ example, Julia has focused her professional life on public service. In her professional public policy and social impact work, her volunteer commitments supporting youth and young adults in foster care, or her political advocacy with the 36th LD Democrats and the Truman National Security Project, Julia works every day with her community to build a more just, prosperous, and equitable world for Seattleites and all Washingtonians.
- Increasing housing affordability and availability: The future viability of our city and economy rests on increasing housing affordability and housing availability in Washington, where we have the fewest number of housing units per household of any state in the nation. We need flexibility to build every type of housing in cities – market rate, middle income, affordable housing, and permanent supportive housing for people with specific needs. We also need inclusionary zoning statewide, so that people’s children, parents, and working families can stay in Seattle and in their home neighborhoods
- Building community climate resiliency: As we work to reverse climate change, we need to help communities cope with these weather impacts today, which disproportionately impact people of color and low income people. As a legislator, I would advocate for a statewide grant program to help cities retrofit critical infrastructure like libraries, community centers, schools, and senior centers to serve as extreme weather shelters; to educate communities and provide home air filters, and develop coordinated plans
- Education and Workforce: We must fully fund K-12 education, including ensuring robust pathways to postsecondary credentials for all students. We must invest in creating an innovative, highly-skilled, and green jobs-focused workforce that can drive Seattle and Washington's future.
I want to build a city and state where everyone belongs and everyone can thrive. My policy priorities reflect my years of experience as a public policy professional, engaged citizen, and political and community volunteer as well as my lived experience as a teacher’s kid, native Seattleite, former renter, and person of color. You can find more about my priorities at: https://www.votejuliareed.com/policy-priorities
Housing Affordability and Inclusionary Zoning
Education and Workforce Development
Community Resiliency and Fighting Climate Change
Healthy Communities: Treating “human infrastructure” — including physical and mental healthcare, affordable childcare, high-quality public schools, and access to healthy food and green spaces — as essential infrastructure
Safe Communities: Listen to what communities are telling us they need to be safe, and act to implement those changes. Prevent crime through investing in effective, community-based solutions and reducing scarcity in jobs, education, healthcare, and housing. Enact common sense gun responsibility reforms that keep weapons of war off of our streets.
Balanced Tax Code: Washington cannot thrive long term with the most regressive tax code in the country. We’ve made positive steps forward, but must continue to work to relieve the burden on low income families, seniors on fixed incomes, veterans, and middle income households being squeezed out of our city.
Besides babysitting for neighbors, my very first job with a W-2 was working at Seattle's All for Kids Books and Music, an independent children's bookstore. I worked there for two years in high school and off and on during college breaks. This job taught me so much. I learned how to stock a store and count out a cash register, how to keep track of inventory, and work all day on your feet, dusting, cleaning, moving inventory around. I learned the importance of showing up on time and working hard. I learned about how creative small business owners need to be to attract customers and compete in crowded marketplaces.
I also learned how much it matters to do work that feels meaningful to you. One of the best things about this job was getting to be a part of helping young people discovery books, stories, and values that were going to be a part of their lives for a long time. I saw how much thought, care, attention and respect my coworkers put into helping the customers choose the right item, whether that customer was a grandparent, parent, teacher, or a young child. I saw how all of our hard work behind the scenes cleaning, stocking, and organizing the store created an environment where people felt respected and comfortable.
This shaped my feeling that whatever your work is, you must bring intention, commitment, and respect for the labor to it, and from that you can draw dignity and pride in what you are able to accomplish.
Note: Ballotpedia reserves the right to edit Candidate Connection survey responses. Any edits made by Ballotpedia will be clearly marked with [brackets] for the public. If the candidate disagrees with an edit, he or she may request the full removal of the survey response from Ballotpedia.org. Ballotpedia does not edit or correct typographical errors unless the candidate's campaign requests it.
Campaign finance summary
Note: The finance data shown here comes from the disclosures required of candidates and parties. Depending on the election or state, this may represent only a portion of all the funds spent on their behalf. Satellite spending groups may or may not have expended funds related to the candidate or politician on whose page you are reading this disclaimer. Campaign finance data from elections may be incomplete. For elections to federal offices, complete data can be found at the FEC website. Click here for more on federal campaign finance law and here for more on state campaign finance law.
Scorecards
A scorecard evaluates a legislator’s voting record. Its purpose is to inform voters about the legislator’s political positions. Because scorecards have varying purposes and methodologies, each report should be considered on its own merits. For example, an advocacy group’s scorecard may assess a legislator’s voting record on one issue while a state newspaper’s scorecard may evaluate the voting record in its entirety.
Ballotpedia is in the process of developing an encyclopedic list of published scorecards. Some states have a limited number of available scorecards or scorecards produced only by select groups. It is Ballotpedia’s goal to incorporate all available scorecards regardless of ideology or number.
Click here for an overview of legislative scorecards in all 50 states. To contribute to the list of Washington scorecards, email suggestions to editor@ballotpedia.org.
2023
| To view all the scorecards we found for this legislator in 2023, click [show]. |
|---|
|
In 2023, the Washington State Legislature was in session from January 9 to April 23.
|
See also
2024 Elections
External links
|
Candidate Washington House of Representatives District 36-Position 1 |
Officeholder Washington House of Representatives District 36-Position 1 |
Personal |
Footnotes
- ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on April 25, 2022
| Political offices | ||
|---|---|---|
| Preceded by Noel Frame (D) |
Washington House of Representatives District 36-Position 1 2023-Present |
Succeeded by - |
