Ruth Lorraine Wojahn (née Kendall; September 17, 1920 – October 13, 2012) was an American politician in the state of Washington.

She had considered working in the medical field, influenced by caring for her mother through a chronic heart condition, but instead attended the University of Washington, majoring in journalism and communications.

Her fiancé, an architect, registered for the draft and began working on ship design for the Corps of Engineers at the Ballard Locks.

They had two sons, Toby and Mark, and Wojahn stayed at home to raise the children and volunteer with the Cub Scouts, the Boys and Girls Club, the YWCA and the PTA.

[1] Wojahn was hired by the Washington State Labor Council in January 1964 to serve as an officer with the Retail Store Employees Union.

The bill to create a new Department of Health passed the House and Senate and was signed into law by Governor Booth Gardner on May 31, 1989.

She supported a state healthcare bill which passed the Senate in April 1993, which was intended to require businesses to provide health insurance to their employees by 1997, although the act was repealed in 1995.

[1] In 1997, she submitted a recording of Washington Supreme Court justice Richard Sanders speaking in opposition of abortion at a political rally to the Commission on Judicial Conduct.

She was interviewed by Anne Kilgannon for the Washington State Legislature's Oral History Project and the resulting book was published in 2010.