Patty Kuderer

Patty Kuderer was elected in 2024 as Washington’s ninth Insurance Commissioner. Previously, Kuderer served for almost a decade in the Washington State Legislature. She was appointed to the state House in 2015 and then became the 48th Legislative District’s first female state Senator in 2017. During her time in the Legislature, she championed consumer and worker protections, common sense gun legislation, increasing access to affordable housing and worked to reform Washington’s health care system.

Kuderer has extensive legal experience as a trial attorney, including serving as a former prosecutor, city attorney and in private practice. She has handled public records, employment discrimination and serious injury cases, as well as argued before Minnesota Appellate and State Supreme Courts.

She earned a law degree from the William Mitchell College of Law and a bachelor’s degree in history from the University of Minnesota.