Jeanne Paquette Atkins is an American politician. She is the Secretary of State of Oregon, having been appointed on March 6, 2015, by Governor Kate Brown following Brown's ascension to the state's highest office. Atkins is a member of the Democratic Party.Although the secretary of state is first in line to the governorship under the Oregon Constitution, because Atkins was appointed rather than elected, she is not part of the line of succession.