Washington State Democrats have chosen state Rep. Laurie Jinkins (D) as the next Speaker of the state House, making the Evergreen State the third on the Pacific coast to elect an LGBT person as head of one of its legislative chambers.

Jinkins, who has represented Tacoma in the state legislature since 2011, will be the first woman to lead the state House. She takes over for retiring Speaker Frank Chopp (D), who first ascended to the post in 1999.

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When she takes office in January, Washington will become the third mainland Pacific Coast state to be led by an LGBT legislator. Jinkins will join Oregon state Speaker Tina Kotek (D) and California Senate president Toni Atkins (D), both of whom are the first lesbians to lead their respective chambers.

Atkins is the first LGBT person in California — and one of only three California legislators ever — to have led both the Assembly and the Senate. Atkins served as Assembly Speaker between 2014 and 2016, when term limits forced her out and she opted to run for a state Senate seat.