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Leland Christensen

R

Chairman, The Senate Judiciary committee (? - Present)

Quick Facts
Personal Details

Professional Experience

  • Auctioneer
  • Law Enforcement, retired
  • Served, United States Army, 19th Special Forces Group

Political Experience

  • Auctioneer
  • Law Enforcement, retired
  • Served, United States Army, 19th Special Forces Group
  • Chairman, The Senate Judiciary committee, present
  • Former County Commissioner
  • Senator, Wyoming State Senate, District 17, 2010-2019
  • Candidate, State Treasurer, Wyoming, 2018
  • Candidate, United States House of Representatives, Wyoming, District At-Large, 2016

Former Committees/Caucuses

Former Member, Agricultural Committee

Former Member, Agriculture, State and Public Lands & Water Resources Committee, Wyoming State Senate

Former Member, Governor's Commission on Judicial Conduct and Ethics

Former Member, Joint Subcommittee to Review Title 25 Issues, Wyoming State Senate

Former Chair, Judiciary Committee, Wyoming State House of Representatives

Former Member, Management Audit Committee, Wyoming State House of Representatives

Member, Park and Recreation Board

Former Member, Select Committee on Capital Financing & Investments, Wyoming State House of Representatives

Former Member, Select Committee on Legislative Technology and Process, Wyoming State Senate

Former Member, Select Natural Resource Funding Committee, Wyoming State House of Representatives

Former Member, Transportation, Highways and Military Affairs Committee, Wyoming State House of Representatives

Former Member, Travel, Recreation, Wildlife and Cultural Resources Committee

Religious, Civic, and other Memberships

  • Auctioneer
  • Law Enforcement, retired
  • Served, United States Army, 19th Special Forces Group
  • Chairman, The Senate Judiciary committee, present
  • Former County Commissioner
  • Senator, Wyoming State Senate, District 17, 2010-2019
  • Candidate, State Treasurer, Wyoming, 2018
  • Candidate, United States House of Representatives, Wyoming, District At-Large, 2016
  • President, Rotary Foundation, present
  • Scoutmaster, Boy Scouts of America
  • Member, Community Foundation of Teton Valley
  • Former Member, Crimestoppers
  • Member, Fair Board
  • Member, Jackson Hole Counseling Center
  • Member, Jackson Hole Wildlife Foundation
  • Former Member, Salvation Army

Other Info

  • Teacher and small business owner

  • 3

Priority Issues:

I want to be very clear about where my priorities and focus will be:

Creating and maintaining jobs, and sustaining our tourism industry

Drawing the line on spending - with declining energy revenues, we need to think, plan and act with fiscal responsibility on a statewide basis

Protecting Wyoming's working ranchlands, open space, wildlife and the special places for generations to come

Policy Positions

2020

Abortion

Do you generally support pro-choice or pro-life legislation?
- Pro-life

Budget

In order to balance the budget, do you support an income tax increase on any tax bracket?
- No

Crime

Do you support mandatory minimum sentences for non-violent drug offenders?
- Unknown Position

Economy

1. Do you support federal spending as a means of promoting economic growth?
- Unknown Position

2. Do you support lowering taxes as a means of promoting economic growth?
- Yes

Education

Do you generally support requiring states to adopt federal education standards?
- No

Energy

1. Do you support building the Keystone XL pipeline?
- Unknown Position

2. Do you support government funding for the development of renewable energy (e.g. solar, wind, thermal)?
- Yes

Environment

Do you support the federal regulation of greenhouse gas emissions?
- No

Guns

Do you generally support gun-control legislation?
- No

Health Care

Do you support repealing the 2010 Affordable Care Act ("Obamacare")?
- Yes

Immigration

Do you support requiring immigrants who are unlawfully present to return to their country of origin before they are eligible for citizenship?
- Yes

Marriage

Do you support same-sex marriage?
- Unknown Position

National Security

Do you support increased American intervention in Iraq and Syria beyond air support?
- Yes

Social Security

Do you support allowing individuals to divert a portion of their Social Security taxes into personal retirement accounts?
- Unknown Position

State Bills