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Martha J. Baumgardner (born March 4, 1959) is a Republican former member of the
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, who represented District 37 from April 2014 until January of 2025. She lives in Louisburg, Kansas. She currently serves as Communications Coordinator, and 10 years prior was a professor and Student News Center advisor at Johnson County Community College in Overland Park. Baumgardner taught and coached at Louisburg High School for seven years. Her prior corporate and healthcare experience includes Kustom Electronics, Control Data, United Telecom, The Pillsbury Corporation, Humana Medical Center and KU Medical Center. She served 18 years as a countywide elected member of the Johnson County Community College board of trustees.


Elections


2014

The Senate District 37 seat had been held by
Pat Apple Patton M. Apple, known as Pat, (born August 31, 1957) was a Republican member of the Kansas Senate, representing the 37th district from 2013 to 2014. He succeeded Robert Tyson to represent the 12th district from 2005 to 2013. After redistric ...
from 2013 to 2014. Apple resigned in April 2014 to join the Kansas Corporation Commission, a state agency. Apple was nominated by Gov.
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in March 2014 for the post, and confirmed by a Senate vote in April 2014. Baumgardner was elected by precinct committee leaders in northern Miami and southern Johnson counties to fill the seat vacated by Apple through the end of the 2014 legislative session. Baumgardner defeated
Charlotte O'Hara Charlotte O'Hara (born January 7, 1951) is an American politician. A Republican Party (United States), Republican, she served as a member of the Kansas House of Representatives from 2011 to 2013, representing District 27. O'Hara was a Johnson Coun ...
in the August 7, 2014 Republican primary and was unopposed in the 2014 general election on November 4.


2016

Baumgardner defeated Kevin King in the 2016 general election on November 4.


2020

Baumgardner defeated Becca Peck in the 2020 general election on November 3, and was unopposed in the primary election. Baumgardner has served as Chair of the Kansas Senate Education Committee since the 2017 Legislative session. She has served as Chair and Vice-Chair of the Joint Corrections and Juvenile Justice Committee since 2015 and was Vice-Chair of the Joint Foster Care Oversight Committee in 2021. Baumgardner has served on the following Kansas Senate Committees: Taxation and Assessment, Commerce, Public Health and Welfare, and Judiciary. She has also served as a member, Vice-Chair and Chair of the Select Education Committee on School Funding.


References


External links


Baumgardner's Kansas Senate page

Baumgardner's website

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Baumgardner, Molly 1959 births Living people Republican Party Kansas state senators 21st-century members of the Kansas Legislature People from Louisburg, Kansas Women state legislators in Kansas 21st-century American women politicians University of Saint Mary alumni University of Missouri–Kansas City alumni