---
type: Person
title: "Derek Stanford"
description: "WA Senate District 1 — WA State Senate District 1"
role: "WA Senate District 1"
party: "D"
level: "state"
branch: "legislative"
state: "WA"
district: "WA State Senate District 1"
represents: "us/states/wa/districts/senate/1"
tenure:
  start: "2019-07-01"
  current: true
election:
  term_length: 2
  term_limit: "varies"
ids:
  person: "e87e4d0d-8eae-4ace-958c-0ea6114dc490"
  office: "6107555c-4d5f-47a3-b5c5-9395e4297594"
  tenure: "ee60fdac-eb8a-4dae-bca3-7ec94f7d34cb"
  jurisdiction: "4608cea5-76a4-4ace-9251-10323b230098"
sources:
  - field: tenure
    source: "OpenStates YAML via GitHub 2026-06-20"
  - field: jurisdiction
    source: "SLDU (Census 2025)"
confidence: official
tags: [officeholder, state, legislative, wa]
timestamp: "2026-07-04"
---

# Derek Stanford

Current WA Senate District 1 (WA State Senate District 1).

Represents [WA State Senate District 1](/us/states/wa/districts/senate/1.md).

## Sources

- tenure: OpenStates YAML via GitHub 2026-06-20
- jurisdiction: SLDU (Census 2025)

Generated from the Atlas officeholders v3 export (2026-07-04).