Amber Waldref
Democratic · WA · Spokane County Commissioner, District 2
Amber Waldref serves as Spokane County Commissioner for District 2 and previously served eight years on the Spokane City Council. Her background includes more than 20 years of nonprofit and community-partnership work focused on environmental protection, neighborhood investment, and economic opportunity.
Track record
Government Spending Reduction
· 1 record
Voted against a $200,000 Spokane County contract with advertising agency 116 & West for a voter-education campaign on a jail sales-tax measure, in a 3-2 Board of County Commissioners vote.
March 7, 2023For
Source: spokesman.com · researched July 23, 2026
Public Safety and Crime Control
· 1 record
Co-authored a published op-ed urging Spokane County voters to renew the sales tax funding juvenile detention, jail operations, and electronic home monitoring as an alternative to youth detention.
October 13, 2024For
Source: spokesman.com · researched July 23, 2026
Social Programs and Welfare
· 1 record
Voted to approve Spokane's ordinance barring private employers from asking about criminal history on initial job applications, in a 5-2 City Council vote.
November 27, 2017For
Source: spokesman.com · researched July 23, 2026
General
· 3 records
Served on the executive committee of the Spokane Regional Health District Board of Health and as a board member of Priority Spokane and the University District Development Authority.
July 23, 2026
Source: spokanecounty.gov · researched July 23, 2026
Received the endorsement of Fuse Washington for the 2026 Spokane County Commissioner District 2 primary.
March 24, 2026
Source: fusewashington.org · researched July 23, 2026
Was appointed to the Washington State Advisory Council on Homelessness.
February 16, 2024
Source: spokesman.com · researched July 23, 2026
Elections
- Commissioner District 2 · August 4, 2026 · Spokane County, Washington · incumbent
Profile last researched July 23, 2026.