Democrat · Washington's 8th District · 2026
Kim Schrier
Schrier studied astrophysics before becoming a pediatrician, a career choice influenced by her own diagnosis with Type 1 diabetes as a teenager.
Biography
Kim Schrier was sixteen when she was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes, an experience that helped steer her toward medicine.1 The daughter of a schoolteacher and an aerospace engineer, she studied astrophysics before medical school and spent years treating children in Issaquah.2
She earned her medical degree at UC Davis in 1997 and completed pediatric residency at Stanford's Lucile Packard Children's Hospital in 2000, after graduating from UC Berkeley.3 She met her husband, David, at their tenth high school reunion, and they have a son, Sam.21 Schrier says years of listening to families worry about insurance bills and treatment costs shaped her view that health care should be more affordable and reliable.4
First elected in 2018, she brought that background to Congress.5 She decided to run after meeting with then congressman Dave Reichert over Republican proposals to replace the Affordable Care Act.6 Her record includes work on surprise medical billing, faster access to generic insulin and child nutrition, as well as local water and public safety projects.47
Schrier supports abortion rights, protecting Affordable Care Act coverage and reducing prescription costs.4 Her education agenda includes universal preschool, affordable college and preparation for careers through both universities and trades.8 The Democrat faces Republican Spencer Meline for another term representing Washington's Eighth District, which includes communities on both sides of the Cascade Mountains.9
Record and controversies
Late Apple stock disclosure
Schrier's original transaction report, signed November 12, 2021, disclosed a July 27 purchase of Apple shares worth between $500,001 and $1 million in a jointly owned account.10 House guidance ordinarily requires covered trades to be reported within thirty days of notification and no later than forty five days after the transaction.11
Her office said her husband made the purchase, that the missed paperwork was an oversight and that she corrected it when she learned about it. It apologized and said they planned a blind trust to avoid future problems. That statement was a proposed corrective step, rather than evidence that an approved blind trust had already been established.12