Sen. Lincoln Fillmore represents District 17 covering parts of West Jordan, South Jordan and
Herriman in Salt Lake County. Sen. Fillmore was appointed to the Senate in 2016 by Gov. Gary
Herbert, and was reelected in 2016 and 2020. He is the chair of the Senate Rules Committee and
serves on the Senate Education Committee, the Senate Judiciary, Law Enforcement and Criminal
Justice Committee and the Criminal Justice Appropriations Subcommittee.
Sen. Fillmore was born and raised in Salt Lake County prior to moving to California as a
teenager, where he wrote a conservative news column for his town’s newspaper and ran for city
council at the age of 18. After returning to Utah, Sen. Fillmore received a degree in mass communication from the University of Utah and began a 20-year career in education as a teacher and administrator. In 2007, he founded Charter Solutions to help public charter schools operate more efficiently. Before joining the Utah Senate, Sen. Fillmore served as the precinct, legislative and region chair for the Utah Republican Party. He is now a small-business owner, operating bakeries in Taylorsville and West Jordan.
As an avid baseball fan, Sen. Fillmore spent nine years as a minor-league baseball announcer and
has seen major league baseball games in 38 different ballparks across four countries on two
continents.
Sen. Fillmore lives in South Jordan with his wife, Cheryl, and their two children.