Gregoire, Christine O. (Christine O'Grady), 1947-

Christine O'Grady Gregoire (born March 24, 1947) is an American politician and lawyer who served as the 22nd governor of Washington from 2005 to 2013. A member of the Democratic Party, she defeated Republican candidate Dino Rossi in 2004 and again in 2008. She was the second female governor of Washington after Dixy Lee Ray.

Born in Adrian, Michigan and raised in Auburn, Washington, she graduated from Auburn Senior High School before attending the University of Washington in Seattle, where she graduated in 1969 with a Bachelor of Arts in speech and sociology. Gregoire then attended law school at Gonzaga University in Spokane, receiving her Juris Doctor in 1977. She went to work as an assistant attorney general in the office of State Attorney General Slade Gorton, a Republican, eventually being appointed as the state's first female Deputy Attorney General. In 1988, at the end of his first term as governor of Washington, Booth Gardner appointed Gregoire director of the Washington Department of Ecology. Gregoire served four years as director before running for attorney general in 1992.

Gregoire was elected attorney general in 1992 by nearly 11 percentage points and was easily reelected in 1996 and 2000. After winning the Democratic primary for Governor in 2004, Gregoire was narrowly elected Governor over Republican Dino Rossi by a margin of 129 votes following a State Supreme Court ruling that allowed several hundred ballots from King County to be counted. Gregoire won Washington's first ever top two primary on August 19, 2008, advancing to a rematch of the 2004 race. Benefitting from a large turnout for Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama, Gregoire was reelected with 53% of the vote in the general election.

From August to December 2014, Gregoire took a position as a Fall Fellow at the Harvard Institute of Politics at the Harvard Kennedy School in Harvard Square, where she spent time engaging with students at the school about leadership in various positions of government. After taking time away from public life following her governorship, Gregoire coordinated with several business and community leaders to found Challenge Seattle, an alliance of CEOs from 18 of the region's largest employers. She has taken an active role in mentoring the Gregoire Fellows at the University of Washington School of Law.