Gabrielle LeDoux

LeDoux went to La Mirada High School in La Mirada, California. She is a graduate of the University of California Berkeley (B.A. 1970) and the University of California, Berkeley School of Law (J.D. 1973). She also attended the University of Southern California (1966–1968). LeDoux moved to Alaska in 1978, first living in Anchorage before moving to Kodiak in 1980. LeDoux's husband (Kurt) and youngest son (Daniel) died in a car accident in 1992. She has two other children, Matthew and Sheree, and two grandchildren, Cuauhtemoc and Bjorn.Gabrielle LeDoux State House Campaign Site [http://www.voteledoux.com/biography Biography]Alaska State Legislature, [http://akleg.gov/legislator.php?id=leu Representative Gabrielle LeDoux]Brendan Joel Kelley, [https://www.anchoragepress.com/news/the-uphill-struggle/article_648a9b80-bc7b-5c34-85a0-f6e14fb7afd1.html The uphill struggle], The Anchorage Press, July 9, 2008.

LeDoux ran for State House as a Democrat in Kodiak in 2000, losing in the general election to Gary Stevens by a 44 percent to 55 percent margin.{{cite web |url= http://www.elections.alaska.gov/results/00GENR/data/results.htm |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20100527134524/http://www.elections.alaska.gov/results/00GENR/data/results.htm |url-status= dead |archive-date= May 27, 2010 |title= Election Summary Report State of Alaska General Election 2000 |author= |date= 2000-12-05 |website= www.elections.alaska.gov|publisher= State of Alaska|accessdate= 2014-10-20}} LeDoux served as mayor of the Kodiak Island Borough March 2001 through October 2004. LeDoux was then elected to the Alaska House of Representatives in 2004. Taking office in January 2005, she served two terms in the Alaska State Legislature, through January 2009 and was a recipient of the Toll Fellowship in 2006. While in the legislature LeDoux served as co-chair of both the Fisheries and the Community and Regional Affairs Committees. She was also a member of the Labor and Commerce, and Resources committees.{{Cite web |url=http://w3.legis.state.ak.us/house/leu.php |title=The Alaska State Legislature |access-date=2009-03-31 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110807101650/http://w3.legis.state.ak.us/house/leu.php |archive-date=2011-08-07 |url-status=dead }}

In October 2007, LeDoux announced her candidacy for the United States House of Representatives in Alaska's at-large congressional district in 2008, challenging 18-term congressman Don Young and Lieutenant Governor Sean Parnell. LeDoux was dubbed a spoiler and placed a distant third in the primary, garnering less than 10 percent of the vote.{{Cite web|url=https://www.politico.com/blogs/scorecard/0808/Young_and_the_restless.html|title=Young and the restless – – POLITICO.com|website=www.politico.com|accessdate=Mar 31, 2020}} The only part of the state she carried was her former legislative district, by a plurality. Ledoux said in July 2009 that she would not run again in 2010 if Young sought re-election.{{Cite web|url = http://www.rollcall.com/issues/54_146/-35874-1.html|title = Young May Avoid Hard Race in 2010|date = June 16, 2009|accessdate = December 7, 2018|website = Roll Call|publisher = |last = Toeplitz|first = Shira}}

After her second term in the house ended in January 2009, LeDoux moved to east Anchorage from Kodiak Island in 2009, and ran for State House in her new district in the 2010 elections. She lost to Pete Petersen in the general election by 5 percent (47 percent to 52 percent).{{cite web |url= http://www.elections.alaska.gov/results/10GENR/data/resultsOF.htm |title= Election Summary Report State of Alaska General Election 2000 |author= |date= 2010-11-30 |website= www.elections.alaska.gov |publisher= State of Alaska |accessdate= 2014-10-20 |archive-date= 2015-09-23 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20150923235212/http://www.elections.alaska.gov/results/10GENR/data/resultsOF.htm |url-status= dead }} In 2012, LeDoux's presumptive Democratic opponent withdrew after winning an uncontested primary, and was replaced by Kay Rollison.{{cite web |url= http://www.adn.com/article/hal-gazaway-withdraws-after-securing-house-nomination| title= Hal Gazaway withdraws after securing house nomination|author= |date= 2012-08-30|website= www.adn.com |publisher= Anchorage Daily News|accessdate= 2014-10-20}}{{cite web |url= http://www.alaskapublic.org/2012/08/30/dems-appoint-rollison-to-hd-13-after-gazaway-withdraws/| title= Dems Appoint Rollison to HD 13 After Gazaway Withdraws|author= Daysha Eaton|date= 2012-08-30|website= www.alaskapublic.org |publisher= Alaska Public Media|accessdate= 2014-10-20}} LeDoux beat Rollison in the general election.{{cite web |url= https://www.elections.alaska.gov/results/12GENR/data/results.htm |title= Election Summary Report State of Alaska General Election 2012 |author= |date= 2012-11-28 |website= www.elections.alaska.gov|publisher= State of Alaska|access-date= 2014-10-20}} She defeated retired colonel Laurie Hummel{{Cite web|url=https://ballotpedia.org/Laurie_Hummel|title=Laurie Hummel|website=Ballotpedia|accessdate=Mar 31, 2020}} to represent District 15 (East Anchorage) in 2014http://ballotpedia.org/Gabriel_LeDoux{{Dead link|date=September 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} (52 percent to 47 percent). LeDoux is her own single largest campaign contributor, by a factor of more than 10 times.{{Cite web|url=https://www.followthemoney.org/entity-details?eid=649492&default=candidate|title=LEDOUX, GABRIELLE – FollowTheMoney.org|website=www.followthemoney.org|accessdate=Mar 31, 2020}}

After being elected in 2016 to her 5th non-consecutive term in the state house, LeDoux joined a majority coalition of Democrats, Independents and two other Republicans, with an avowed goal of ameliorating the state's budget deficit, the latter a product of declining oil revenues, budgeting, and prior taxation restructuring. LeDoux was chosen to chair the house Rules Committee. Alaska state Republican Party chair, Tuckerman Babcock, informed LeDoux by letter that the party will recruit and support a primary opponent against her in 2018.[https://www.adn.com/politics/2016/11/13/the-musk-ox-revolt-how-the-alaska-house-flipped-from-republican-control-for-the-first-time-in-two-decades/ Musk Ox revolt: How Republicans lost control of the Alaska House for first time in years], Alaska Dispatch News, Nathaniel Herz, November 13, 2016. Retrieved 13 December 2016.[https://www.facebook.com/AlaskaRepublicanParty/posts/10153768940416534 Alaska Republican Party], Tuckerman Babcock, November 9, 2016. Retrieved 13 December 2016. After joining the majority coalition in 2016, LeDoux expressed confidence that she would be representing the needs of her constituents saying "We're hired to do a job, and the purpose of our job is not to keep our job. It's to actually do something.".[https://www.adn.com/politics/2016/12/10/alaska-republican-party-formally-pulls-support-from-3-of-its-own/ Alaska Republican Party formally pulls support from three of its own], Alaska Dispatch News, Annie Zak, December 10, 2016. Retrieved 13 November 2016.

In 2018, she first won the Republican primary with 57% of the votes against Aaron Weaver and then the general election with 42% of the votes against democrat Lyn Franks (35%) and write-in candidate Jake Sloan (24%).Ballotpedia, [https://ballotpedia.org/Gabrielle_LeDoux Gabrielle LeDoux]

In March 2020, the Alaska Department of Law accused LeDoux of Election Misconduct after a two-year investigation which included the FBI.{{Cite web|url=https://www.adn.com/politics/2020/03/13/state-to-file-criminal-charges-against-anchorage-legislator-and-two-others-alleging-election-misdeeds/|title=Anchorage legislator and 2 associates charged with election misconduct|date=2020-03-13|website=Anchorage Daily News|language=en-US|access-date=2020-03-26}}

LeDoux is known for her sponsorship and passage of the 2008 "Safe Haven" Bill which allows parents to surrender newborns without prosecution.{{Cite web|url=https://www.adn.com/anchorage/article/alaska-law-allowing-surrender-newborns-unused/2013/10/29/|title=Alaska law allowing surrender of newborns unused|date=Oct 29, 2013|website=Anchorage Daily News|accessdate=Mar 31, 2020}} In 2018, she wrote and sponsored family court legislation establishing a rebuttable presumption favoring equal time shared parenting as being in the best interest of the child after divorce, unless there is child abuse or neglect.Alaska State Legislature, [https://www.akleg.gov/basis/Bill/Detail/30?Root=HB%20368 House Bill 368], 2018.

For the 2019 legislative session, LeDoux is one of several sponsors of a bill to enact mandatory jail time for car theft. She has commented that by changing the law to strengthen penalties we will send a clear message that this kind of lawless behavior will not be tolerated.Leroy Polk, [https://www.ktuu.com/content/news/Would-mandatory-jail-time-for-car-thieves-help-Anchorage-Lawmakers-say-yes-503153001.html Would mandatory jail time for car thieves help Anchorage? Lawmakers say yes], KTUU, December 19, 2018.

• Kodiak Launch Complex Advisory Board
• Alaska Municipal League, former Board Member {{Cite web|url=http://www.alaskapolitics.com/contacts/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110909215820/http://www.alaskapolitics.com/contacts/|url-status=usurped|archive-date=September 9, 2011|title=Contacts|accessdate=Mar 31, 2020}}
• Alaska Bar Association, Member
• Maritime Law Association, former Member http://mlaus.org/member-directory/|accessdate{{Dead link|date=December 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} = 2014-10-21
• Alaska Chamber of Commerce, Member

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• http://www.adn.com/elections/story/432682.html
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20081121012117/http://thenextright.com/category/blog-tags/gabrielle-ledoux Gabrielle Ledoux | The Next Right]
• [http://100years.akleg.gov/bio.php?id=775 Gabrielle LeDoux] at 100 Years of Alaska's Legislature

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