Kimberly Yee

Kimberly Yee (born February 23, 1974) is an American politician serving as the 45th Arizona state treasurer. She is the first Asian-American woman elected to the Arizona State Legislature. A member of the Republican Party, she was elected to the Arizona House of Representatives for the 10th legislative district from 2011 to 2013 and the Arizona Senate for the 20th legislative district from 2013 until 2019. She was elected to the position of Arizona state treasurer on November 6, 2018. As Treasurer, Kimberly Yee is currently the highest-ranking statewide elected Republican in Arizona. Yee announced her candidacy for Arizona governor in May 2021 but withdrew from the Republican nomination race in January 2022 to run for reelection as treasurer. Early life and education Yee was born and raised in Phoenix, Arizona; she traces her ancestry to Taishan, Guangdong. Yee attended Greenway High School in Phoenix where she was a student journalist at the Demon Dispatch in the early 1990s. Yee is a graduate of Pepperdine University where she earned a bachelor's degree in political science and a bachelor's degree in English. She also holds a master's degree in public administration from Arizona State University's School of Public Affairs, and was the recipient of the honored Scholar-Citizen Award.