After Congress
Green decided not to seek an eleventh term in 1974 and resigned on December 31, 1974, just before her final term expired; she was succeeded by Robert B. Duncan. She returned to Portland, Oregon, and became a professor of government at Warner Pacific College. She was appointed to the Oregon State Board of Higher Education in 1979. Later living in Wilsonville, she was appointed by President Ronald Reagan to the President's Commission on White House Fellowships in 1981.
Edith Green died on April 21, 1987, in Tualatin and was buried at Mountain View Cemetery in Ashland. The Edith Green - Wendell Wyatt Federal Building in downtown Portland is named in her honor along with fellow Congressperson Wendell Wyatt, whom she served alongside of during part of her tenure in Congress.
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