Michelle Fischbach

Michelle Fischbach met her husband, Scott, while working on Senator Rudy Boschwitz's campaign.¹ They raised two children near Paynesville and now have seven grandchildren.¹ The couple lives on a hobby farm in the Paynesville area.² Her involvement in Republican campaigns and opposition to abortion reaches back to those early years together.¹

Fischbach earned her bachelor's degree at St. Cloud State University in 1989 and her law degree at William Mitchell College of Law in 2011, while serving in the Minnesota Senate.³ Her elected career began on the Paynesville City Council before a 1996 special election sent her to the state Senate.³ She was a business owner when first elected to the state Senate.³

She became the Minnesota Senate's first woman president in 2011 and served as lieutenant governor in 2018 after Tina Smith left that office for the U.S. Senate.³ Her Senate work also included chairing its Higher Education Committee.² Fischbach entered Congress in 2021 and serves on the Ways and Means and Rules committees.² She also cochairs the House Pro-Life Caucus.¹

Her priorities include protecting tax cuts, additional border wall and immigration enforcement funding, and agricultural trade agreements.¹ She supports federal voter identification requirements, gray wolf delisting and allowing states to use Temporary Assistance for Needy Families funds for pregnancy care centers.¹