Derek Schmidt

Republican · KS-2 · U.S. House

Bio

Derek Larkin Schmidt is an American lawyer and politician serving as the U.S. representative for Kansas's 2nd congressional district since 2025. He previously served as the Kansas Attorney General from 2011 to 2023. A Republican, Schmidt was first elected to office serving in the Kansas Senate, where he represented the 15th district from 2001 to 2011, and served as Agriculture Committee chairman and Senate majority leader. Schmidt became the state attorney general in 2011, after he defeated incumbent Democrat Stephen Six.

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Record of service

In office: 1.6 years
First took office: 2025 (1 terms)
Seniority: 388 of 437 by time served
Age: 58

District offices

Pittsburg, KS · 620-308-7450
Topeka, KS · 785-205-5253

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Service history, offices and identifiers from unitedstates/congress-legislators (public domain). Years served sum each term rather than subtracting the first start date, so a break in service is not counted as time in office.

Reported net worth

2025

$5.0M

Most recent filing (2025)

Assets: $2.7M – $7.4M
Liabilities: $15k – $50k
Net worth: $2.6M – $7.4M

Largest holdings in the 2025 filing · 133 assets reported

240 Acres Cherryvale Kansas, 100% Interest$500k – $1.0M

Tan Door Holdings LLC ⇒ Veronica Drive, Lawrence KS, 100% Interest$250k – $500k

5th Street, Independence Kansas$100k – $250k

Kansas Public Employees Retirement System (KPERS)$100k – $250k

Locust Triplex, Independence Kansas$100k – $250k

Lincoln Financial Group ⇒ The Growth Fund of America Class A Shares (AGTHX)$100k – $250k

LPL - GreyCoal ⇒ Macquarie Core Equity Fund A (WCEAX)$100k – $250k

LPL - GreyCoal ⇒ Macquarie Science and Technology Fund A (WSTAX)$100k – $250k

Protective Life Insurance Company ⇒ Macquarie Growth and Income Fund Institutional (FGIPX)$100k – $250k

Wealth Alliance ⇒ Roth Ind. Retirement Account ⇒ iShares Core S&P 500 ETF (IVV)$100k – $250k

Wealth Alliance ⇒ Roth Ind. Retirement Account ⇒ Vanguard Value ETF (VTV)$100k – $250k

Intrust Bank$50k – $100k

Thrivent Whole Life Policy$50k – $100k

LPL - GreyCoal ⇒ LPL - GreyCoal Cash Account$50k – $100k

Wealth Alliance ⇒ IRA ⇒ iShares Core S&P 500 ETF (IVV)$50k – $100k

Wealth Alliance ⇒ Roth Ind. Retirement Account ⇒ Fidelity Total Bond ETF (FBND)$50k – $100k

Wealth Alliance ⇒ Roth Ind. Retirement Account ⇒ Vanguard Growth ETF (VUG)$50k – $100k

Wealth Alliance ⇒ Roth IRA ⇒ Fidelity Enhanced International ETF (FENI)$50k – $100k

Wealth Alliance ⇒ Roth IRA - Spouse ⇒ iShares Core S&P 500 ETF (IVV)$50k – $100k

Equity Bank$15k – $50k

Fidelity - Wealth Alliance ⇒ iShares Core S&P 500 ETF (IVV)$15k – $50k

Husch Blackwell Retirement ⇒ Vanguard Target Retirement 2035 Fund (VTTHX)$15k – $50k

Lincoln Financial Group ⇒ Amercian Funds Ultra-Short Bond Fixed Income$15k – $50k

LPL - GreyCoal ⇒ Macquarie Mid Cap Growth Fund A (WMGAX)$15k – $50k

Protective Life Insurance Company ⇒ Macquarie Core Equity Fund Institutional (ICIEX)$15k – $50k

Protective Life Insurance Company ⇒ Macquarie Global Growth Fund Institutional (IGIIX)$15k – $50k

Protective Life Insurance Company ⇒ Macquarie Small Cap Growth Fund Institutional (IYSIX)$15k – $50k

TIAA Retirement Account- Spouse ⇒ CREF Stock Account - R3 (QCSTIX)$15k – $50k

Wealth Alliance ⇒ IRA ⇒ Fidelity Total Bond ETF (FBND)$15k – $50k

Wealth Alliance ⇒ IRA ⇒ Invesco S&P 500 Equal Weight ETF (RSP)$15k – $50k

Wealth Alliance ⇒ IRA ⇒ J.P. Morgan Exchange-Traded Fund Trust JPMorgan International Rese$15k – $50k

Wealth Alliance ⇒ IRA ⇒ JPMorgan BetaBuilders U.S. Aggregate Bond ETF (BBAG)$15k – $50k

Wealth Alliance ⇒ IRA ⇒ PIMCO U.S. Treasury Index Fund PIMCO Multisector Bond Active Excha$15k – $50k

Wealth Alliance ⇒ IRA ⇒ SPDR MidCap Trust Series I (MDY)$15k – $50k

Wealth Alliance ⇒ IRA ⇒ Vanguard Growth ETF (VUG)$15k – $50k

Wealth Alliance ⇒ IRA ⇒ Vanguard Value ETF (VTV)$15k – $50k

Wealth Alliance ⇒ Roth Ind. Retirement Account ⇒ Fidelity Government Cash Reserves$15k – $50k

Wealth Alliance ⇒ Roth Ind. Retirement Account ⇒ First Trust Small Cap Core AlphaDEX Fund $15k – $50k

Wealth Alliance ⇒ Roth Ind. Retirement Account ⇒ JPMorgan BetaBuilders U.S. Aggregate Bond$15k – $50k

Wealth Alliance ⇒ Roth Ind. Retirement Account ⇒ PIMCO U.S. Treasury Index Fund PIMCO Mult$15k – $50k

Largest first, capped at 40 line items. Each is the asset's reported value bracket, not the income it produced.

From annual financial disclosures, which report every asset and debt as a bracket — so these are ranges, and the figure shown is their midpoint. A primary residence is not a reportable asset while its mortgage is a reportable debt, which pushes some members negative. How this is calculated →

Overall lean (DW-NOMINATE)

LeftCenterRight

Issue profile

Taxes & Fiscal

R+0.85

Healthcare

R+0.84

Immigration & Border

R+1.00

Guns

R+1.00

Abortion & Reproductive Rights

R+1.00

Environment & Energy

R+0.87

Crime & Policing

R+1.00

Defense & Veterans

R+0.98

Economy & Labor

R+0.73

Foreign Policy & Trade

R+0.97

Civil Rights & Social

R+0.17

Education

R+1.00

Government & Democracy

R+0.93

Judicial & Executive Nominations

R+1.00

Each issue runs left ↔ right, scored from how the member voted on bills tagged to that issue (−1…+1). Issues with too few votes are blank. Overall lean uses DW-NOMINATE.

How they score against the parties

Derek Schmidt's voting record compared with each party's national platform, issue by issue — the same similarity score used across the site.

86%Closest

59%

24%

14%

Democratic Socialists (DSA)

11%

Communist Party USA

On the political map

Derek Schmidt (the large ringed dot) among every current member of Congress and the party platforms.

Party platforms:Communist Party USADemocratic Socialists (DSA)Green PartyDemocratic PartyRepublican PartyLibertarian Party

Each small dot is a current member (Dem · Rep); the larger dots are party platforms — click one for its closest members. Economic axis: taxes, healthcare, labor, energy. Social axis: abortion, guns, immigration, civil rights, crime.

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Caucuses & committees

Where Schmidtsits in Congress's own organization — each group's lean is computed from its members' voting records. Explore them all on the caucuses and committees pages.

Committees

House Committee on Armed Servicescenter · 57 members
Tactical Air and Land Forces Military Personnel Readiness
House Committee on the Judiciarycenter · 42 members
Immigration Integrity, Security, and Enforcement The Administrative State, Regulatory Reform, and Antitrust Oversight
House Committee on Small Businesscenter · 24 members
Rural Development, Energy, and Supply Chains Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Workforce Development

Most and least aligned members

Treating Schmidt's 14 issue scores as a vector, cosine similarity measures whether two voting records point the same way (+100%) or in opposite directions (−100%) — the colleagues whose records align most and least with theirs.