Speaker of the Wyoming House of Representatives

Last updated February 13, 2025

The Speaker of the Wyoming House of Representatives is the presiding officer of the Wyoming House of Representatives. The Speaker has historically been a member of the majority party who is the de facto leader of their party. The current House Speaker is Chip Neiman of Hullet.^[1]

Speakers of the Wyoming House of Representatives

Speakers of the Wyoming House of Representatives^[2]
Number	Name	Term	Party	Residence	Notes
1	Oliver P. Kellogg	1890-1893	Republican	Sundance
2	L.C. Tidball	1893-1895	Populist	Sheridan	Elected Speaker with Democratic support
3	Jay L. Torrey	1895-1897	Republican	Big Piney
4	Albert D. Kelley	1897-1899	Republican	Buffalo
5	Levi R. Davis	1899-1901	Republican	Newcastle
6	Jerome S. Atherly	1901-1905	Republican	Worland	Served two consecutive terms as Speaker
7	Lyman B. Cooper	1905-1907	Republican	Riverton
8	Scott K. Snively	1907-1909	Republican	Sheridan
9	Charles E. Hayden	1909-1911	Republican	Casper
10	Levi R. Davis	1911-1913	Republican	Newcastle	Previously served as Speaker (1899–1901)
11	Martin L. Pratt	1913-1915	Republican	Powell
12	James M. Graham	1915-1917	Republican	Lander
13	W.K. Jones	1917-1919	Republican	Powell
14	E.J. Sullivan	1919-1921	Republican	Casper
15	Lewis R. Ewart	1921-1923	Republican	Cody
16	J.D. Noblitt	1923-1925	Republican	Cokeville
17	J.C. Underwood	1925-1927	Republican	Gillette
18	A.W. McCollough	1927-1929	Republican	Laramie
19	Marvin L. Bishop, Jr.	1929-1931	Republican	Casper
20	Charles B. Mann	1931-1933	Republican	Cowley
21	William M. Jack	1933-1935	Democratic	Casper	Later served as State Auditor and Secretary of State Nominee for governor in 1954
22	Henry Watenpaugh	1935-1937	Democratic	Sheridan
23	Herman F. Krueger	1937-1939	Democratic	Powell
24	Herbert Fowler	1939-1941	Republican	Newcastle
25	Carl Robinson	1941-1943	Democratic	Afton	Later served as State Auditor
26	Richard J. Luman	1943-1945	Republican	Pinedale	Later served as State Treasurer
27	Walter W. Hudson	1945-1947	Republican	Veteran
28	Homer Oxley	1947-1949	Republican	Lingle
29	Herman Mayland	1949-1951	Republican	Lovell
30	Frank C. Mockler	1951-1953	Republican	Dubois
31	David Foote	1953-1955	Republican	Casper
32	T.C. Daniels	1955-1957	Republican	Douglas
33	Lee E. Keith	1957-1959	Republican	Kaycee
34	Jay House	1959-1961	Democratic	Rawlins
35	Joseph L. Budd	1961-1963	Republican	Big Piney
36	Marlin Kurtz	1963-1965	Republican	Cody
37	Walter Phelan	1965-1966	Democratic	Cheyenne	Died
38	Edness Kimball Wilkins	1966-1967	Democratic	Casper	First female Speaker of the House
39	William Swanton	1967-1969	Republican	Casper
40	Verda James	1969-1971	Republican	Casper	First Republican female Speaker of the House
41	Ward Myers	1971-1973	Republican	Lovell
42	Cliff Davis	1973-1975	Republican	Gillette
43	Harold Hellbaum	1975-1977	Republican	Chugwater
44	Nels J. Smith	1977-1979	Republican	Sundance
45	Warren Morton	1979-1981	Republican	Casper
46	Bob Burnett	1981-1983	Republican	Laramie
47	Russell Donley III	1983-1985	Republican	Casper
48	Jack Sidi	1985-1987	Republican	Casper	Later served as State Auditor
49	Patrick Meenan	1987-1989	Republican	Casper
50	Bill McIlvain	1989-1991	Republican	Cheyenne
51	William Cross	1991-1993	Republican	Douglas
52	Douglas Chamberlain	1993-1995	Republican	LaGrange
53	John Marton	1995-1997	Republican	Buffalo
54	Bruce Hinchey	1997-1999	Republican	Casper
55	Eli Bebout	1999-2001	Republican	Riverton	Nominee for governor in 2002 Later elected to the Wyoming Senate
56	Rick Tempest	2001-2003	Republican	Casper
57	Fred Parady	2003-2005	Republican	Rock Springs
58	Randall Luthi	2005-2007	Republican	Freedom
59	Roy Cohee	2007-2009	Republican	Casper
60	Colin Simpson	2009-2011	Republican	Cody	Candidate for governor in 2010
61	Edward Buchanan	2011-2013	Republican	Torrington	Former Wyoming Secretary of State (2018–2022)
62	Tom Lubnau	2013-2015	Republican	Gillette
63	Kermit Brown	2015-2017	Republican	Laramie
64	Steve Harshman	2017–2021	Republican	Casper
65	Eric Barlow	2021–2023	Republican	Gillette
66	Albert Sommers	2023–2025	Republican	Pinedale
67	Chip Neiman	2025–present	Republican	Hulett

References

↑ . Retrieved: February 12, 2024.
↑ Past Officers of Wyoming's State Legislature Archived 2014-12-12 at the Wayback Machine . Retrieved: January 5, 2017.

v t e Members of the Wyoming House of Representatives
68th Legislature (2025) Speaker of the House Chip Neiman (R) Speaker pro tempore Jeremy Haroldson (R) Majority Leader Scott Heiner (R) Minority Leader Mike Yin (D)
▌ Chip Neiman (R) ▌ J.D. Williams (R) ▌ Abby Angelos (R) ▌ Jeremy Haroldson (R) ▌ Scott Smith (R) ▌ Tomi Strock (R) ▌ Bob Nicholas (R) ▌ Steve Johnson (R) ▌ Landon Brown (R) ▌ John Eklund Jr. (R) ▌ Jacob Wasserburger (R) ▌ Clarence Styvar (R) ▌ Ken Chestek (D) ▌ Trey Sherwood (D) ▌ Pam Thayer (R) ▌ Mike Yin (D) ▌ J.T. Larson (R) ▌ Scott Heiner (R) ▌ Joe Webb (R) ▌ Mike Schmid (R) ▌ McKay Erickson (R) ▌ Andrew Byron (R) ▌ Liz Storer (D) ▌ Nina Webber (R) ▌ Paul Hoeft (R) ▌ Dalton Banks (R) ▌ Martha Lawley (R) ▌ John Winter (R) ▌ Ken Pendergraft (R) ▌ Tom Kelly (R) ▌ John Bear (R) ▌ Ken Clouston (R) ▌ Ivan Posey (D) ▌ Pepper Ottman (R) ▌ Tony Locke (R) ▌ Art Washut (R) ▌ Steve Harshman (R) ▌ Jayme Lien (R) ▌ Cody Wylie (R) ▌ Marilyn Connolly (R) ▌ Gary Brown (R) ▌ Rob Geringer (R) ▌ Ann Lucas (R) ▌ Lee Filer (R) ▌ Karlee Provenza (D) ▌ Ocean Andrew (R) ▌ Bob Davis (R) ▌ Darin McCann (R) ▌ Robert Wharff (R) ▌ Rachel Rodriguez-Williams (R) ▌ Laurie Bratten (R) ▌ Reuben Tarver (R) ▌ Chris Knapp (R) ▌ Lloyd Larsen (R) ▌ Joel Guggenmos (R) ▌ Elissa Campbell (R) ▌ Julie Jarvis (R) ▌ Bill Allemand (R) ▌ J.R. Riggins (R) ▌ Marlene Brady (R) ▌ Daniel Singh (R) ▌ Kevin Campbell (R)
Majority caucus ▌ Republican (56) Minority caucus ▌ Democratic (6) Wyoming Legislature Wyoming House of Representatives Wyoming Senate

v t e Speakers of U.S. lower houses
United States House of Representatives:▌ Mike Johnson (R)
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Italics indicate speakers pro tempore *Unicameral body

Speaker of the Wyoming House of Representatives

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Speakers of the Wyoming House of Representatives

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