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Mitch Green
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Nonpartisan

Portland City Council District 4
Tenure

2025 - Present

Term ends

2026

Years in position

0

Elections and appointments
Last elected

November 5, 2024

Education

High school

Battle Ground High School

Bachelor's

Portland State University, 2010

Ph.D

The University of Missouri–Kansas City, 2015

Military

Service / branch

U.S. Army Reserve

Years of service

2001 - 2007

Personal
Birthplace
Rock Springs, Wyo
Religion
Agnostic
Profession
Economist
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Mitch Green is a member of the Portland City Council in Oregon, representing District 4. He assumed office on January 1, 2025. His current term ends on December 31, 2026.

Green ran for election to the Portland City Council to represent District 4 in Oregon. He won in the general election on November 5, 2024.

Green completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2024. Click here to read the survey answers.

Biography

Mitch Green was born in Rock Springs, Wyoming. He served in the U.S. Army Reserve from 2001 to 2007. He earned a high school diploma from Battle Ground High School, a bachelor's degree from Portland State University in 2010, and a Ph.D. from the University of Missouri–Kansas City in 2015. His career experience includes working as an economist.[1]

Elections

2024

See also: City elections in Portland, Oregon (2024)

General election

General election for Portland City Council District 4

The ranked-choice voting election was won by Olivia Clark in round 7 , Mitch Green in round 29 , and Eric Zimmerman in round 31 . The results of Round are displayed below. To see the results of other rounds, use the dropdown menu above to select a round and the table will update.

There were no incumbents in this race. The results have been certified. Source

Total votes: 76,718
Candidate Connection = candidate completed the Ballotpedia Candidate Connection survey.

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Endorsements

Ballotpedia did not identify endorsements for Green in this election.

Campaign themes

2024

Ballotpedia survey responses

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Candidate Connection

Mitch Green completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2024. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Green's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.

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My name is Mitch Green and I’m running for City Council because I love Portland. I was raised here and carried this city’s values with me across the world, over decades of public service. No matter where life took me, Portland kept calling me home.

I am an Army veteran, energy economist, community college professor, and union member who grew up in a union family. I’ve committed my life to public service and to solving complex problems like the ones Portland currently faces.

I’m running for City Council because I feel called to carry forward this fighting tradition in City Hall. My experiences have prepared me to be a hard-working, dedicated, and optimistic public servant for District 4 and all of Portland.
  • Healthy, Plentiful, and Affordable Housing It’s no secret Portland and many other U.S. cities are deep in a housing crisis, but we didn’t get here overnight. Portland needs more affordable housing — whether you rent or own. We need to help move people experiencing homelessness into stable housing with adequate services, and we need help for people at risk of eviction to keep them housed in the first place. Portlanders deserve a city council that will fight for healthy, plentiful, and affordable housing. On City Council I will use my expertise as an economist to fight for policy that makes Portland a place people can afford to live and thrive.
  • Safe and Compassionate Communities We’re in a livability crisis. A lot of folks are finding life harder now than they remember it being, and there’s a real sense that we’re headed in the wrong direction. Even so, we’ve made good choices in the past and we ought to stand strong in them. I believe we need to support innovative programs like Portland Street Response that make good use of our resources and improve safety for everyone. That means fully funding PSR so that it can operate 24/7. Safe communities also include the ways we move around the city to reach each other and meet our needs: we should be building up, not tearing down, our city’s cycling and pedestrian safety infrastructure.
  • World-Class Environmental Leadership In recent years, Portland’s leadership on environmental stewardship and climate justice has faltered. We need to return to what made us a leader in the first place: following the lead of our residents. Portlanders overwhelmingly support climate policy that meets the urgency of the crisis. And that means electing leaders who will follow the lead of the community and fight to implement our ambitious plans instead of bowing to pressure from big polluters.
Social housing, climate investment policy, and building active transportation infrastructure.
Elected council members are responsible for engaging with the community on policy development and constituent services, introducing new policy proposals, and conducting oversight of city administration.
Fall of the Berlin Wall. I was about 8 years old.
I worked at Burgerville and I held that job for a few months.
Endorsed by over a dozen labor unions, dozens of progressive organizations and community members.

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