Ms. Saathoff currently serves as Chief Legal Officer and SVP, Regulation of NW Holdings and NW Natural effective January 1, 2026. Ms. Saathoff previously served as Chief Legal Officer, Chief Compliance Officer and SVP, Regulation for NW Natural, as well as General Counsel, Chief Compliance Officer, and SVP, Regulation for NW Natural Holdings from February 2025 to January 2026. She was appointed as Senior Vice President and General Counsel in 2015, and in 2016, Ms. Saathoff was appointed to oversee the Company’s regulatory matters. Ms. Saathoff served as NW Natural’s Vice President, Legal, Risk and Compliance from 2013 to 2014, and as Chief Governance Officer and Corporate Secretary from when she joined the Company in 2008 until 2013, as well as serving as Deputy General Counsel from 2010 to 2013. Ms. Saathoff is a member of the Board of Directors for various NW Holdings subsidiaries, including NW Natural Renewables Holdings, LLC, SiEnergy Operating, LLC and NW Natural Water Company, LLC and their respective subsidiaries.
Prior to joining NW Natural, Ms. Saathoff was Chief Compliance Officer for Danaher Corporation and Assistant General Counsel for Tektronix, Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Danaher. Prior to her position at Tektronix, Ms. Saathoff was General Counsel to Oregon Governor Kulongoski and his administration from 2003 through 2005 and also served as the Governor’s Business and Economic Development Advisor and Higher Education Policy Advisor during that period. She has played a variety of legal roles in her career, including Senior Legal Counsel at Tektronix from 2000 through 2003, where she provided legal services to several business and operational divisions, and four years with the Oregon Department of Justice as the Attorney-in-Charge, managing the Business Transactions Section for the General Counsel Division. Ms. Saathoff began her legal career at Stoel Rives LLP, focusing her practice in corporate, securities and finance. She currently serves as Chair of the Oregon Lottery Commission. Ms. Saathoff is a past Director of the Boards of the Northwest Gas Association, Oregon Health & Science University, the Portland Center Stage, United Way of Columbia-Willamette, Oregon Nanoscience and Microtechnologies Institute, the Artists Repertory Theater, and the Classroom Law Project. She is also a past member of the Portland State University Business Advisory Council, and previously served on the Oregon Public Officials Compensation Commission. Prior to her legal career, Ms. Saathoff was a high school teacher at Sunset High School in the Beaverton School District.
Ms. Saathoff received her Bachelor of Arts in Sociology and Master of Arts in Teaching from Lewis & Clark College, and her Doctor of Law (J.D.) from Northwestern School of Law of Lewis & Clark College.