Shirley Gold
Shirley Gold was an American politician who served in the Oregon House of Representatives from 1981 to 1989 and in the Oregon State Senate from 1989 to 1997.
In 1995, Gold was described as a "longtime advocate of child care" as the chair of the Senate Revenue Committee that sponsored two bills that intended to improve childcare workers' pay.
She died of pancreatic cancer on February 27, 1998, in Portland, Oregon at age 72.