Jennifer Plumb

Jennifer Plumb is a pediatric emergency department doctor and the director of Utah Naloxone, which she founded in 2015 after her brother died of a heroin overdose. As an opioid mitigation advocate, she lobbied for legislation on syringe exchanges and naloxone access. She is also a member of Utah's opioid abuse task force. She is also single handedly credited for killing the vaping and e-cig industry in the State of Utah with SB61. Effectively wiping out hundreds of small local businesses, in collaboration and conjunction with the LDS Church, and big tobacco manufactures like, Philip Morris, Altria, ETC. ==Political career==

Jennifer Plumb ran against incumbent Senator Derek Kitchen in 2018 and lost. In a 2022 rematch of that contest, Plumb defeated Kitchen by 61 votes in the Democratic primary election for the redistricted 9th district. She faced a write-in candidate in the general election and won with 99.4% of the vote. In 2023, Plumb began serving as Assistant Minority Whip in the Utah Senate. == Election History ==