Keith Ripp (born November 13, 1961) is a

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politician. Ripp was born in

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and was raised in Lodi. He graduated from Lodi High School in 1980, and took farming courses from the

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. Ripp continues to run the family farm in northern

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. He is a former president of the Wisconsin Soybean Marketing Board and the Wisconsin Corn Growers Association. Ripp served as a supervisor for the Town of Dane from 2006 to 2009. He was elected to the

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in 2008. Ripp resigned from the Assembly on December 29, 2017, to become the assistant deputy secretary of the

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Living people University of Wisconsin–Madison College of Agricultural and Life Sciences alumni 1961 births Politicians from Madison, Wisconsin People from Lodi, Wisconsin Politicians from Columbia County, Wisconsin Politicians from Dane County, Wisconsin Republican Party members of the Wisconsin State Assembly 21st-century members of the Wisconsin Legislature {{Wisconsin-WIAssembly-Republican-1960s-stub