After unsuccessfully challenging Juneau's state senator, Kim Elton, in 2002, she would be elected to the Alaska House in 2008 from a district centered on Juneau's Mendenhall Valley.
Thunder Mountain High School is located in the Mendenhall Valley section of Juneau and draws most of its students from this area, although under an open enrollment policy, high school students anywhere in the district may attend any of the three high schools.
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During his second term in the House, Elton moved from downtown Juneau to Point Louisa, at mile 15 of the Glacier Highway, located in the Mendenhall Valley-centered 4th District represented by Republican Bill Hudson.