Eric Jenkins

Eric Jenkins was born at Fort Leavenworth and is married with five children.¹ His education includes a bachelor's degree from Missouri State, a master's from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte and graduation from the U.S. Army War College.¹

Jenkins retired as an Army colonel after thirty four years of active and reserve service.¹ His assignments included command of a Special Forces team and a military police battalion, and deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan.¹ His civilian career included three decades at the Federal Emergency Management Agency, the federal disaster response agency.¹

He spent more than twenty years on Shawnee's planning commission before serving on the City Council from 2015 to 2023.¹.² His council work included serving as its president.¹ The council reduced property taxes during his tenure.² He is now the Republican challenger to Democratic incumbent Sharice Davids in Kansas's 3rd District.²

His platform calls for a balanced federal budget framework, lower taxes and fewer regulations on businesses.¹ He supports stronger border enforcement, including withholding federal funds from cities that obstruct immigration enforcement.² He also favors domestic energy production, veterans' healthcare and support for Kansas military installations.² He lists free speech, religious liberty and Second Amendment protections among his priorities.¹