Representative Mannix is a practicing business law attorney in Salem and owns the Mannix Law Firm which he established in 1986, representing individuals, non-profits, and businesses. He has served in a broad variety of government positions in his life including, law clerk to the Oregon Court of Appeals, Assistant Attorney General for Oregon, Assistant Attorney General for the U. S. Territory of Guam, and an Administrative Law Judge for Oregon. He was first elected to the House of Representatives in 1989, representing House District 32 which included parts of North and South Salem. He served 10 years in the House of Representatives (1989-1997 and 1999-2001) and a partial term in the Senate (1998). Stepping away from the political limelight, Representative Mannix took a 22-year gap to spend time investing in his family, supporting community organizations, and maintaining his private law practice. In 2022, he chose to re-enter the political arena, and returned to the Capitol in 2023 as State Representative for House District 21. Growing up with a father serving in the Foreign Service, Representative Mannix spent seven years of his childhood in Latin America, living in Ecuador, Bolivia, and Panama. When he first arrived in Quito, Ecuador, at the age of five, he was placed at a Catholic school, with all classes in Spanish. He remained at this school completely immersed in the Spanish language until grade 4. Through this experience he developed a great sense for Latin American culture and conversational fluency in Spanish.
