Hon. Ruth Adhiambo Odinga is the Kisumu County Woman Representative, elected in August 2022, and has declared her intent to vie for the Kisumu County governorship in 2027. Affiliated with the Orange Democratic Movement (ODM), she is a public administrator and currently serves as ODM’s Deputy Organizing Secretary.

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She sits on the Budget and Appropriations Committee, the Agriculture and Livestock Committee and the Members Service and Facilities Committee. She was the first Deputy Governor of Kisumu County (2013–2017), then Senior Advisor and Director of Special Programs and Disaster Management for the county government from 2017 to 2022. In business she was Managing Director and CEO of Spectre International Ltd and MD of Petro Plus Africa, and she founded the Kenya Network of Women Governors (KENWOG) to champion female leadership. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Social Science (1985) and a Postgraduate Diploma in Development Studies (1989) from the University of Oslo.