List of state legislature speakers

Last updated April 18, 2025

The following is a list of state-level Speakers of the House (or state Assembly, depending upon the state) in the United States:^[1]^[2]

State	Speaker	Party	Since
Alabama	Nathaniel Ledbetter	R	2023
Alaska	Bryce Edgmon	I-Coalition	2025
Arizona	Steve Montenegro	R	2025
Arkansas	Matthew Shepherd	R	2018
California	Robert Rivas	D	2023
Colorado	Julie McCluskie	D	2023
Connecticut	Matthew Ritter	D	2021
Delaware	Melissa Minor-Brown	D	2025
Florida	Daniel Perez	R	2024
Georgia	Jon Burns	R	2023
Hawaii	Nadine Nakamura	D	2024
Idaho	Mike Moyle	R	2022
Illinois	Chris Welch	D	2021
Indiana	Todd Huston	R	2020
Iowa	Pat Grassley	R	2020
Kansas	Dan Hawkins	R	2023
Kentucky	David Osborne	R	2017
Louisiana	Phillip DeVillier	R	2024
Maine	Ryan Fecteau	D	2024
Maryland	Adrienne A. Jones	D	2019
Massachusetts	Ron Mariano	D	2020
Michigan	Matt Hall	R	2025
Minnesota	Lisa Demuth	R	2025
Mississippi	Jason White	R	2024
Missouri	Dean Plocher	R	2023
Montana	Matt Regier	R	2023
Nebraska	John Arch	R^[a]	2023
Nevada	Steve Yeager	D	2022
New Hampshire	Sherman Packard	R	2020
New Jersey	Craig Coughlin	D	2018
New Mexico	Javier Martínez	D	2023
New York	Carl Heastie	D	2015
North Carolina	Destin Hall	R	2025
North Dakota	Dennis Johnson	R	2022
Ohio	Jason Stephens	R	2023
Oklahoma	Kyle Hilbert	R	2025
Oregon	Dan Rayfield	D	2022
Pennsylvania	Joanna McClinton	D	2023
Rhode Island	Joe Shekarchi	D	2021
South Carolina	Murrell Smith	R	2022
South Dakota	Hugh Bartels	R	2023
Tennessee	Cameron Sexton	R	2019
Texas	Dade Phelan	R	2021
Utah	Mike Schultz	R	2023
Vermont	Jill Krowinski	D	2021
Virginia	Don Scott	D	2024
Washington	Laurie Jinkins	D	2020
West Virginia	Roger Hanshaw	R	2018
Wisconsin	Robin Vos	R	2013
Wyoming	Albert Sommers	R	2023

↑ The Nebraska Legislature is technically non-partisan.

Records

Mike Madigan is cumulatively the longest-serving state legislative speaker in U.S. history (serving from 1983-1995 and again from 1997 to 2021). Tom Murphy served the longest consecutive tenure as state legislative speaker from 1973 to 2002. Tina Kotek is the longest-serving female state legislative speaker in U.S history (serving from 2013-2022).

References

↑ "State Speaker of the House - Ballotpedia" . Retrieved 2018-04-18.
↑ "State Legislative Leaders". National Conference of State Legislators . November 6, 2024. Retrieved November 21, 2024.

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AL ▌ Ledbetter (R), ▌ Pringle (R) AK ▌ Edgmon (I/C) AZ ▌ Montenegro (R), ▌ Carter (R) AR ▌ Shepherd (R), ▌ Eubanks (R) CA ▌ Rivas (D), ▌ Wood (D) CO ▌ McCluskie (D), ▌ Boesenecker (D) CT ▌ Ritter (D), ▌ Godfrey (D) DE ▌ Melissa Minor-Brown (D) FL ▌ Perez (R), ▌ Duggan (R) GA ▌ Burns (R), ▌ Jones (R) HI ▌ Nakamura (D), ▌ Ichiyama (D) ID ▌ Moyle (R) IL ▌ Welch (D), ▌ Gordon-Booth (D) IN ▌ Huston (R), ▌ Karickhoff (R) IA ▌ Grassley (R), ▌ Wills (R) KS ▌ Hawkins (R), ▌ Carpenter (R) KY ▌ Osborne (R), ▌ Meade (R) LA ▌ DeVillier (R), ▌ Johnson (R) ME ▌ Fecteau (D) MD ▌ Jones (D), ▌ Stein (D) MA ▌ Mariano (D), ▌ Hogan (D) MI ▌ Hall (R), ▌ Smit (R) MN ▌ Demuth (R), ▌ Olson (R) MS ▌ White (R), ▌ Barton (R) MO ▌ Patterson (R), ▌ Perkins (R) MT ▌ Ler (R), ▌ Zolnikov (R) NE ▌ Kelly (R), ▌ Arch (R)* NV ▌ Yeager (D), ▌ Monroe-Moreno (D) NH ▌ Packard (R), ▌ Kofalt (R) NJ ▌ Coughlin (D), ▌ Quijano (D) NM ▌ Martínez (D) NY ▌ Heastie (D), ▌ Hunter (D) NC ▌ Hall (R), ▌ Setzer (R) ND ▌ Weisz (R) OH ▌ Huffman (R), ▌ Manning (R) OK ▌ Hilbert (R), ▌ Moore (R) OR ▌ Fahey (D), ▌ Holvey (D) PA ▌ McClinton (D) RI ▌ Shekarchi (D), ▌ Kennedy (D) SC ▌ Smith (R), ▌ Pope (R) SD ▌ Hansen (R), ▌ Lems (R) TN ▌ Sexton (R), ▌ Marsh (R) TX ▌ Burrows (R), ▌ Geren (R) UT ▌ Schultz (R), ▌ Dunnigan (R) VT ▌ Krowinski (D) VA ▌ Scott (D) WA ▌ Jinkins (D), ▌ Stearns (D) WV ▌ Hanshaw (R), ▌ Rohrbach (R) WI ▌ Vos (R), ▌ Petersen (R) WY ▌ Neiman (R), ▌ Haroldson (R) Federal districts: DC ▌ Mendelson (D)* Territories: AS ▌ Ale (R) GU ▌ Blas (D)* MP ▌ Villagomez (I) PR ▌ Méndez (NPP/R), ▌ Peña (NPP) VI ▌ Potter (D)*
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