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Lommen was born on August 2, 1966, in Springfield, Oregon, to Dallas Jay Lommen and Susan Roy (Martin) Lommen. He was raised in Oregon and later described himself as a lifelong Oregonian.
He moved to Forest Grove with his wife, Stephanie, in 1989. By 2004, the couple had two young children, and Lommen's civic campaign presented Forest Grove as the community in which he and his family intended to live and raise them.
Lommen graduated from Springfield High School in Springfield, Oregon, in 1984. The school served the educational community of the southern Willamette Valley, where Springfield developed alongside nearby Eugene as an important Oregon population and employment center.
He received a Bachelor of Science degree from Willamette University in 1988, majoring in chemistry and minoring in physics. Founded in 1842, Willamette is Oregon's oldest university and has long combined liberal-arts education with professional and scientific study. Lommen later received a Master of Business Administration from the University of Oregon in 1996. The university, established in Eugene in 1876, is Oregon's flagship public research institution and provided a business-management complement to his scientific training.
Lommen began his professional career in 1988 as a chemist with LC Resources in McMinnville, Oregon, remaining with the company through 1998. His early work followed his university training in chemistry and physics and placed him in Oregon's laboratory and industrial technology sector.
In 1998 he joined Relcom, Inc., in Forest Grove, an Oregon company associated with industrial networking and fieldbus technology. He became director of marketing and held technology-oriented responsibilities that included marketing and sales executive work, marketing analysis, project management, applications engineering, and laboratory work. Relcom's products and technical activities operated in the fieldbus environment, in which digital communication networks connect industrial sensors, controllers, and actuators.
Lommen was also a director of Relcom from 1999 to 2002. His name appears as a co-inventor on Relcom patent records concerning fieldbus network protection and current-limiting technologies, including work published in the early 2000s. These records document a connection between his marketing career and the company's industrial communications technology.
Lommen contributed as a named co-inventor to Relcom, Inc. patent work concerning current limiting, network isolation, and protection technologies for industrial fieldbus systems.
He combined scientific training in chemistry and physics with business education and a career in industrial technology marketing, applications engineering, and project management.
He participated in Forest Grove civic life through community-service leadership, international sister-city exchange, and a 2004 nonpartisan city-council campaign.
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2016Lommen entered local political life as a nonpartisan candidate for Forest Grove City Council in Oregon's 2004 municipal election. His campaign emphasized maintaining Forest Grove as an affordable community, responsible use of municipal resources, and its appeal as a place to raise children. The nonpartisan setting reflected Oregon municipal politics, in which local candidates may seek office without formal party labels on the ballot.
Lommen's public civic statements emphasized community stewardship, affordability, responsible management of public resources, and the importance of maintaining Forest Grove as a family-oriented place to live. His campaign also expressed appreciation for the town's civic and religious character without identifying a formal religious affiliation.
Lommen belonged to the American Chemical Society and participated in Kiwanis community service in Forest Grove. His Kiwanis involvement included membership from 1989 to 2003, service as a director from 1993 to 1996, and the presidency of the Forest Grove club in 1994–1995. The American Chemical Society is a major professional society supporting chemical research and practitioners, while Kiwanis is an international service organization focused on community improvement and youth development.
He also advised the Pacific University Circle K Club from 1992 to 1993. Circle K is the collegiate service organization associated with Kiwanis International, linking campus-based volunteer activity with the wider Kiwanis service tradition.
Lommen married Stephanie M'lane Merrick on June 17, 1988. They moved to Forest Grove in 1989 and had two children by 2004. His parents were Dallas Jay Lommen and Susan Roy (Martin) Lommen.
