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

PositionNamePartyDistrict
President of the SenateJ. Stuart AdamsRepublican22
Majority LeaderEvan VickersRepublican28
Majority WhipDan HemmertRepublican14
Assistant Majority WhipF. Ann MillnerRepublican18
Minority LeaderKaren MayneDemocratic5
Minority WhipLuz EscamillaDemocratic1
Assistant Minority WhipJani IwamotoDemocratic4

Members of the 63rd Senate

DistrictNamePartyFirst electedCounties
Represented
1Luz EscamillaDem2008Salt Lake
2Derek KitchenDem2018Salt Lake
3Gene DavisDem1998Salt Lake
4Jani IwamotoDem2014Salt Lake
5Karen MayneDem2008Salt Lake
6Wayne HarperRep2012Salt Lake
7Deidre HendersonRep2012Utah
8Kathleen RiebeDem2018Salt Lake
9Kirk Cullimore Jr.Rep2018Salt Lake
10Lincoln FillmoreRep2015Salt Lake
11Daniel McCayRep2018Salt Lake, Utah
12Daniel ThatcherRep2010Salt Lake, Tooele
13Jake AndereggRep2016Tooele, Utah
14Dan HemmertRep2016↑Utah
15Keith GroverRep2018Utah
16Curt BrambleRep2000Utah
17Scott SandallRep2018Box Elder, Cache, Tooele
18F. Ann MillnerRep2014Davis, Weber
19Allen M. ChristensenRep2004Morgan, Summit, Weber
20D. Gregg BuxtonRep2016Weber
21Jerry StevensonRep2010↑Davis
22J. Stuart AdamsRep2009↑Davis
23Todd WeilerRep2012↑Davis
24Ralph OkerlundRep2008Juab, Piute, Sanpete, Sevier, Tooele, Wayne
25Lyle W. HillyardRep1984Cache, Rich
26Ronald WintertonRep2018Daggett, Duchesne, Summit, Uintah, Wasatch
27David HinkinsRep2008Carbon, Emery, Grand, San Juan, Utah
28Evan VickersRep2012Beaver, Garfield, Iron, Kane, Millard, Washington
29Don IpsonRep2008Washington

↑: Senator was originally appointed

Legislative Website

Utah Senate staff, under direction of Senate Presidents Waddoups and Niederhauser worked with the House of Representatives, the , and other staff to develop what many have called the best legislative website in the nation. In 2014, won the NCSL Online Democracy Award. The Utah Legislature had previously won this award in 2005.

Past composition of the Senate