Gail Shibley

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| state_house = Oregon

| district = 12th

| term_start = 1991

| term_end = 1997

| predecessor = Phil Keisling

| successor = Chris Beck

| constituency = portions of Portland and Multnomah County

| birth_date = {{birth based on age as of date|57|2015|06|16}}

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| party = Democratic

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| spouse = Tiffany Harris

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Gail R. Shibley (born c. 1958){{cite news|last=Jaquiss|first=Nigel|authorlink=Nigel Jaquiss|title=The Candidate: Gail Shibley|date=November 10, 2004|newspaper= Willamette Week|url=http://www.wweek.com/portland/article-3812-the_candidate.html|accessdate=January 1, 2013}} is an American politician who was the first openly gay person to serve in the Oregon State Legislature.{{cite news|last=Kost|first=Ryan|title=Gail Shibley returns to Portland City Hall as most experienced chief of staff in recent history|newspaper=The Oregonian|date=April 20, 2013|url=http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2013/04/gail_shibley_returns_to_portla.html|accessdate=June 7, 2013}}

She was appointed to the Oregon House of Representatives in January 1991, to fill a vacancy caused by Phil Keisling{{'}}s resignation to serve as Oregon Secretary of State.{{cite web|title=State Government Legislators and Staff, 1991 Regular Session|publisher=Oregon State Archives|url=http://records.sos.state.or.us/ORSOSWebDrawer/Recordpdf/6785351|accessdate=January 1, 2013}} She was elected to the seat in 1992 and re-elected in 1994. In 1996, she did not run for re-election, but instead ran for an for an open seat on the City Council of Portland. She was narrowly defeated by Jim Francesconi. Shibley subsequently moved to Germany, where she was an international liaison for the Saxony parliament, and then Washington, D.C., where she worked for the Federal Highway Administration, and was a senior advisor to the United States Secretary of Labor.{{cite news |title=Gail Shibley returns to Portland City Hall as most experienced chief of staff in recent history |date=April 20, 2013 | work=The Oregonian|first=Ryan |last=Kost }}

She subsequently returned to Oregon, working on Ted Kulongoski's campaign for Governor of Oregon in the 2002 gubernatorial election. She later served as the administrator of the Office of Environmental Public Health within the Oregon Health Authority. In December 2012, newly elected Portland Mayor Charlie Hales announced that Shibley would serve as his chief of staff when he assumed office in January 2013.{{cite news|last=Stevens|first=Suzanne|title=Charlie Hales taps Gail Shibley as chief of staff|date=December 3, 2012|url=http://www.bizjournals.com/portland/news/2012/12/03/charlie-hales-taps-gail-shibley-as.html|newspaper=Portland Business Journal|accessdate=January 1, 2013}} She was described as having a "peer-to-peer" relationship with Hales, coming in as experienced chief of staff in recent times.