Mike Lee

Background and career

Michael Shumway Lee (born June 4, 1971) is an American lawyer and politician serving as the senior United States senator from Utah, a seat he has held since 2011. A member of the Republican Party, Lee has been Utah's senior senator since 2019 and the dean of Utah's congressional delegation since 2021. The son of U.S.

Education

Memberships and affiliations

• Federalist Society (professional) source
• J. Reuben Clark Law Society (professional) source
• Boy Scouts of America (youth) source

Citizenship

citizen by birth in the United States.

Religion

Mormon (self-reported in Pew survey of Congress)

Name history and family

Birth name: Michael Shumway Lee · Children: 3 · Marriages: 1 · Counts reflect publicly documented information; a missing count means not documented, not zero.

Marital status: Not listed

Previously held offices

Not listed.

Campaign fundraising

Raised $5,138,473 in the 2024 cycle and $2,255,169 so far in the 2026 cycle (partial).

Top individual donors, 2024

4,077 other donors gave a total of $1,559,631.

16 donor rows withheld pending verification.

Top individual donors, 2026 (partial)

2,981 other donors gave a total of $831,002.

9 donor rows withheld pending verification.

PAC and party committee contributors over $5,000, 2024

Gross receipts from FEC filings, not net of refunds. Industry mappings are the directory's own classification; see methodology.

PAC and party committee contributors over $5,000, 2026 (partial)

Gross receipts from FEC filings, not net of refunds. Industry mappings are the directory's own classification; see methodology.

Outside money

2024

Independent expenditures by super PACs and other outside groups concerning the member. A committee name links to its page here, with its contributors and every member it spent for or against.

Leadership PAC: LEAD ENCOURAGE ELECT PAC. No donors met the reporting thresholds.

Joint fundraising committee MIKE LEE VICTORY FUND: $10,834 allocated to the member across 3 transfers.

2026 (partial)

Independent expenditures by super PACs and other outside groups concerning the member. A committee name links to its page here, with its contributors and every member it spent for or against.

Leadership PAC: LEAD ENCOURAGE ELECT PAC. No donors met the reporting thresholds.

Joint fundraising committee MIKE LEE VICTORY FUND: $70,627 allocated to the member across 9 transfers.

Independent expenditures are reported to the FEC by the spending committee, not the member's campaign. A committee is marked single-candidate when 80% or more of its cycle independent-expenditure dollars concern one candidate. Donors are named only at $50,000 or more to a super PAC or joint fundraising committee. For leadership PACs, individuals are named at $50,000 or more; organizations and PACs at $5,000 or more. The 2026 cycle is still in progress.

Amounts are each donor's net total of itemized contributions across the cycle (primary, general, and runoff elections combined), after subtracting refunds, not single gifts. Receipts marked as received in error, returned, or refunded are excluded, and refunds to the donor are subtracted. Joint-fundraising shares are included: the member committee's itemized share of joint-fundraising proceeds (FEC transaction type 15J) counts toward the donor's total, while the joint fundraising committee's own transfers are not counted separately. Donors are named only when their net cycle total is $1,000 or more; smaller donors appear only in the aggregate count and total below each table. Where a returned receipt of $10,000 or more affects a total, it is noted below the table. Lists cover itemized individual gifts to the member's principal campaign committee only. Employer and occupation are self-reported. The 2026 cycle is still in progress.

Donor figures are net of refunds from the FEC individual-contribution bulk files (2024 and 2026 cycles, each itemization taken at its latest amended version before any exclusion), rebuilt and reconciled row by row against the previous release on 2026-10-02; see methodology for the method and the reconciliation counts.

Money and finances

Estimated net worth

-$769,996 to $99,999 (Annual Report for CY 2025 (filed 08/13/2026)). Earliest on record (2013): $102,005 to $269,999. disclosure

Estimates are summed from ranges reported on financial disclosures, so they are approximate. Ranges are wide by design.

Stock trades (last 12 months)

0 trades, estimated volume No trades. As of 2026-09-26. Quiver

STOCK Act disclosures cover the member, spouse, and dependent children, and report amounts as ranges, so volumes are estimates. Null records mean data was not retrieved, never zero trades.

Top assets

Influence in Congress

Legislative effectiveness

1.16 on the 118th Legislative Effectiveness Score (Senate). thelawmakers.org

Bipartisanship

Lugar Bipartisan Index: -1.26, ranked #92 (118th (first session, 2023)) Lugar Center

Ideology

DW-NOMINATE first dimension: 0.891 (conservative end of the scale), chamber rank #99 of the 119th Congress. Voteview

Interest group ratings

Bills enacted

0 sponsored bills enacted into law in the 119th Congress.

2026 election

District lean

Cook Partisan Voting Index (2025): R+11. Last election margin: 10.41 points (2022). Cook PVI

2026 election

Seat not up for election in 2026.

Notable family

Notable relatives found through systematic public-records searches (~2 queries per member). Absence of a listing means nothing notable was found under this methodology, not that no notable family exists.

Voting record (2026)

244 roll-call votes in 2026 · missed 1.6% · party unity 93.3

Legislation

Sponsored 138 bills and cosponsored 227 bills in the 119th Congress.

Latest statements

• Mike Lee, Warren Davidson Urge Department of War to Adopt Clear Standards for Banned Substances September 22, 2026
  WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Mike Lee (R-UT) and Representative Warren Davidson (R-OH) today authored a letter to Secretary of War Pete Hegseth and DoW General Counsel Earl Matthews urging the military
• Lee, Miller Fight for Student Privacy with Student Voter Data Protection Act September 16, 2026
  WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Mike Lee (R-UT) and Representative Mary Miller (R-IL) introduced the Student Voter Data Protection Act, a bill to safeguard the personal data of college students from being
• Lee, Colleagues Call for Investigation of California's Climate Pacts with China August 20, 2026
  WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Mike Lee (R-UT) joined Senators Rick Scott (R-FL), Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), and Congresswoman Young Kim (R-CA-39) to call for an investigation into the state of California's
• Lee Introduces Kayleigh's Law to Protect Victims of Sexual Crimes from Contact by Abusers August 12, 2026
  WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Mike Lee (R-UT) introduced Kayleigh's Law to protect victims from any further unwanted contact with their abuser. Named for survivor Kayleigh Kozak who bravely testified

Latest official press releases and statements from the member's official site. This section requires periodic refresh; always check the source site for the newest items.

Social following

Office total: 1.3M · Personal total: no counts retrieved · Combined: 1.3M

Collected 2026-09-29. Office accounts are the member's official congressional accounts; personal accounts are their own campaign/personal accounts. Totals sum only accounts with a retrieved count and are never zero-filled. X counts are approximate (logged-out page variance). A missing account means none was verified, not that none exists.

Committee assignments

Caucus memberships

No documented caucus memberships.

Staff

Chief of staff

Stephen J Hansen · (202) 224-5444

• Legislative Correspondent at Office of Sen. Mike Lee (2024) source

Communications director

William J Gribbin · (202) 224-5444

• Communications Director at Rep. Rich McCormick (Jan. 2023-Aug. 2023) source
• Communications Director at Rep. Yvette Herrell (July 2021-Jan. 2023) source
• Communications Director at Rep. Gary Palmer source
• Special Assistant to the President/Speechwriter at Donald Trump administration source
• Communications Strategist/Chief Speechwriter at Sen. Ted Cruz (March 2018-July 2019) source
• Speechwriting Director at U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (April 2017-March 2018) source
• Writer and Special Projects Coordinator at Heritage Foundation (June 2014-Feb. 2017) source
• Staff Assistant, Republican at Joint Economic Committee (May 2011-March 2013) source
• Associate at Americans for Tax Reform (Sept. 2010-April 2011) source

Staff data from House and Senate payroll filings; roles can change and filings can lag.

Offices

Washington, D.C. office

363 Russell Senate Office Building, Washington, DC 20510
(202) 224-5444

District/state offices

Connections

Connections are derived from documented public records: family ties, shared schools, shared employers, fraternities and sororities, and staff career histories. Committee ties are excluded here and shown on committee pages.

Official links

Official website · Contact form · Wikipedia