1000 FRIENDS OF OREGON

1000 Friends of Oregon was founded by Henry Richmond and Governor Tom McCall in 1974. The previous year, Governor McCall had signed Senate Bill 100 into law, creating Oregon’s iconic land use planning system. He and a young attorney named Henry Richmond realized that the fledgling legislation would need a champion-or rather, 1000 champions-in order to truly thrive. Thus, 1000 Friends of Oregon was born, with Henry Richmond at the helm as our first Executive Director. Over the years, the baton of leadership passed first to Robert Liberty (1994), then Bob Stacey (2002), then Jason Miner (2010), then Russ Hoeflich (2017), and now rests with Sam Diaz (2021).