Early Life, Education and Career
Cathy McMorris was born in Salem, Oregon on May 22, 1969 and raised on a farm. She worked in the family owned and operated business, the Peachcrest Fruit Basket Orchard and Fruit Stand, in Kettle Falls, Washington for 13 years. She is the descendant of pioneers who traveled the Oregon Trail in the early 1850s to the Pacific Northwest where her father's family pursued agriculture and her mother's family worked in the forestry industry. McMorris Rodgers has one brother, Jeff McMorris, who served as her campaign manager in 2004.
In 1990 she earned a BA in Pre-law from Pensacola Christian College and earned her Executive MBA from the University of Washington in 2002.
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