A native Oregonian, she is a Salem civic leader and a former Republican member of the Oregon House of Representatives.
[1] In 1967, she graduated from South Salem High School in the state's capital city before she married Jerry Berger in 1969.
She taught racquetball at Chemeketa Community College in the early 1980s and then as a project manager for a local manufacturing company from 1988 to 1995.
[5] She joined the House beginning with the 2003 session representing District 20, which spans parts of Polk and Marion counties.
[12][13] Her father, Richard Chambers, was the person responsible for proposing the original bill that passed the Oregon Legislature in 1971.
[13] She was the first Republican in the House to vote in favor of an increase in the tax on cigarettes to pay for more health insurance of children in 2007.
Her seat was the only one to change party control in the Oregon House of Representatives that year, with Democrat Paul Evans, a former mayor of Monmouth, defeating Republican candidate Kathy Goss.