Julie Fedorchak

Julie Fedorchak grew up the youngest of eight children, spending summers on her family's farm near Belden.¹ She and her husband, Mike, live in Mandan and have three children.¹ Her biography lists dinner and game nights, watching sports and competing at almost anything among the family's favorite pastimes.¹

A University of North Dakota graduate, Fedorchak worked as communications director for Governor Ed Schafer before running her own communications and marketing business for a decade.¹ During those years, she wrote and published three books with her mother and wrote a Bismarck Tribune column.¹ She later served as Senator John Hoeven's state director.²

Before entering Congress in 2025, Fedorchak spent twelve years on North Dakota's Public Service Commission.²³ She also served as president of the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners, completing that term in 2024.² She serves on the House Energy and Commerce Committee.² In June 2025, she introduced the Baseload Reliability Protection Act, a proposal to restrict retirement of baseload power plants in regions facing electricity supply shortfalls.⁴

She seeks a second term against Democrat Trygve Hammer and independents Helene Neville and Charles Tuttle.⁵ Her healthcare ideas include expanding health savings accounts and directing federal insurance subsidies to Americans rather than insurers.⁶ She defends tariffs as negotiating tools while urging faster resolution of trade issues with Canada.⁶