State Senator Howard Marklein

State Senator Howard Marklein was first elected to the Wisconsin Legislature in 2010 as a State Representative. After serving two terms in the State Assembly, he was elected to the State Senate in 2014. Howard is currently serving his second term as a State Senator for the 17th Senate District after re-election in 2018.

During his time in the State Assembly, Howard served as the Chair of the Assembly Committee on Ways & Means and the Vice-Chair of the Joint Audit Committee.

Howard was appointed Co-Chair of the legislature’s budget-writing Joint Committee on Finance (JFC) for the 2021-22 session. He has served as a member of this committee for four sessions.

In addition to the JFC, he currently serves on the Senate Committee on Agriculture and Tourism (Vice-Chair), the Joint Committee on Employment Relations, the Joint Legislative Audit Committee
and the Joint Legislative Council.

He has also been appointed to the University of Wisconsin Hospitals and Clinics Authority Board of Directors, the Wisconsin State Fair Park Board and the Wisconsin Mississippi River Parkway Commission.

Howard was raised on a dairy farm in rural Spring Green. He is married to Peggy, a registered nurse. Howard has two children and three stepchildren, as well as seven grandchildren.