Derek Schmidt
Derek Larkin Schmidt is an American lawyer and politician who served as the Kansas Attorney General from 2011 to 2023. A Republican, Schmidt was first elected to office serving in the Kansas Senate, where he represented the 15th district from 2001 to 2011, and served as Agriculture Committee chairman and Senate majority leader. Schmidt became the state attorney general in 2011, after he defeated incumbent Democrat Stephen Six.
Some of the key events about Derek Schmidt
- 1990Graduated from the University of Kansas with a Bachelor's degree in Journalism
- 1996Earned a Master's degree in International Politics from the University of Leicester
- 1997Obtained a law degree from Georgetown University Law Center
- 2000Elected to the Kansas Senate, representing the 15th district
- 2005Became majority leader of the Kansas Senate
- 2010Elected as the 44th Attorney General of Kansas
- 2010Joined a lawsuit challenging the Affordable Care Act, seeking to have it declared unconstitutional
- 2014Re-elected as Kansas Attorney General for a second term
- 2015Defended Kansas's ban on same-sex marriage after the U.S. Supreme Court legalized it nationwide
- 2016Supported a lawsuit against the Obama administration's directive on transgender students' bathroom use
- 2017Backed President Trump's travel ban affecting several Muslim-majority countries
- 2018Re-elected as Kansas Attorney General for a third term
- 2018Advocated for stricter voter identification laws in Kansas
- 2019Served as president of the National Association of Attorneys General
- 2019Opposed efforts to expand Medicaid coverage in Kansas
- 2020Supported a lawsuit seeking to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election
- 2021Defended Kansas's new congressional map against claims of gerrymandering
- 2022Elected as the 51st Governor of Kansas
- 2022Supported restrictions on abortion access in Kansas following the overturning of Roe v. Wade
- 2022Lost the Kansas gubernatorial election to incumbent Laura Kelly
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