Utah State Senate
The Utah State Senate is the upper house of the Utah State Legislature, the state legislature of the U.S. state of Utah. The Utah Senate is composed of 29 elected members representing an equal number of senate districts. Each senate district is composed of approximately 95,000 people. Members of the Senate are elected to four-year terms without term limits. The Senate convenes at the Utah State Capitol in Salt Lake City.
Composition of the Senate
Leadership, 2018-2019 session
Position | Name | Party | District |
President of the Senate | J. Stuart Adams | Republican | 22 |
Majority Leader | Evan Vickers | Republican | 28 |
Majority Whip | Dan Hemmert | Republican | 14 |
Assistant Majority Whip | F. Ann Millner | Republican | 18 |
Minority Leader | Karen Mayne | Democratic | 5 |
Minority Whip | Luz Escamilla | Democratic | 1 |
Assistant Minority Whip | Jani Iwamoto | Democratic | 4 |
Members of the 63rd Senate
District | Name | Party | First elected | Counties Represented |
1 | Luz Escamilla | Dem | 2008 | Salt Lake |
2 | Derek Kitchen | Dem | 2018 | Salt Lake |
3 | Gene Davis | Dem | 1998 | Salt Lake |
4 | Jani Iwamoto | Dem | 2014 | Salt Lake |
5 | Karen Mayne | Dem | 2008 | Salt Lake |
6 | Wayne Harper | Rep | 2012 | Salt Lake |
7 | Deidre Henderson | Rep | 2012 | Utah |
8 | Kathleen Riebe | Dem | 2018 | Salt Lake |
9 | Kirk Cullimore Jr. | Rep | 2018 | Salt Lake |
10 | Lincoln Fillmore | Rep | 2015 | Salt Lake |
11 | Daniel McCay | Rep | 2018 | Salt Lake, Utah |
12 | Daniel Thatcher | Rep | 2010 | Salt Lake, Tooele |
13 | Jake Anderegg | Rep | 2016 | Tooele, Utah |
14 | Dan Hemmert | Rep | 2016↑ | Utah |
15 | Keith Grover | Rep | 2018 | Utah |
16 | Curt Bramble | Rep | 2000 | Utah |
17 | Scott Sandall | Rep | 2018 | Box Elder, Cache, Tooele |
18 | F. Ann Millner | Rep | 2014 | Davis, Weber |
19 | Allen M. Christensen | Rep | 2004 | Morgan, Summit, Weber |
20 | D. Gregg Buxton | Rep | 2016 | Weber |
21 | Jerry Stevenson | Rep | 2010↑ | Davis |
22 | J. Stuart Adams | Rep | 2009↑ | Davis |
23 | Todd Weiler | Rep | 2012↑ | Davis |
24 | Ralph Okerlund | Rep | 2008 | Juab, Piute, Sanpete, Sevier, Tooele, Wayne |
25 | Lyle W. Hillyard | Rep | 1984 | Cache, Rich |
26 | Ronald Winterton | Rep | 2018 | Daggett, Duchesne, Summit, Uintah, Wasatch |
27 | David Hinkins | Rep | 2008 | Carbon, Emery, Grand, San Juan, Utah |
28 | Evan Vickers | Rep | 2012 | Beaver, Garfield, Iron, Kane, Millard, Washington |
29 | Don Ipson | Rep | 2008 | Washington |
↑: Senator was originally appointed