Rocky Anderson, 33rd mayor of Salt Lake City, Utah, 2000–2008 Jacinda Ardern, Prime Minister New Zealand, 2017- Frank J. Cannon, U.S. Senator from Utah Jim Dabakis is an Utah state senator married to his husband Stephen Justeson. Formerly enrolled at BYU in 1971, he left after his mission and he came out at as gay at 23. James "Bo" Gritz, controversial former United States Army Special Forces officer Abby Huntsman, political commentator and great-granddaughter of Apostle David B. Haight Jon Huntsman Jr., former Utah governor, former U.S. Ambassador to Singapore, China, and Russia, and grandson of Apostle David B. Haight Sonia Johnson is a prominent radical feminist and supporter of the Equal Rights Amendment. Kate Kendell is a lesbian lawyer from Utah who currently serves as the Executive Director of the National Center for Lesbian Rights. She graduated from the University of Utah in 1988 and became the first staff attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union of Utah. Kate and her partner, Sandy Holmes, live in San Francisco with their two children, as well as Kendall's daughter from a previous marriage. Alfred W. McCune, railroad builder, mine operator, and politician Sterling McMurrin, U.S. Commissioner of Education in the Kennedy administration, provost of the University of Utah, and philosopher Culbert Olson, twenty-ninth governor of California Esther Peterson, Assistant Secretary of Labor in the Kennedy administration and consumer advocate Pro-Life (born Marvin Richardson), politician known for his opposition to abortion and for changing his name to reflect his views Calvin Rampton, three-term Utah governor Marco Rubio, U.S. Senator from Florida Brent Scowcroft, National Security Adviser to multiple U.S. Presidents Carrie Sheffield, writer and political analyst Kyrsten Sinema, U.S. Senator from Arizona Misty Snow is an American politician and transgender woman who grew up Mormon in Salt Lake City. She won over 1/4th of Utah votes for state senator, as the first transgender nominee for a major party to the nation's Senate. Obert C. Tanner, founder of the O.C. Tanner Company, philanthropist, and philosophy professor Morris Udall, Arizona Congressman and presidential candidate Stewart Udall, Secretary of the Interior in the Kennedy and Johnson administrations, Arizona congressman, environmental activist, attorney, and author Tom Udall, U.S. Senator for New Mexico Jenny Wilson (politician), Salt Lake County Mayor Ted Wilson (mayor), former three-term Salt Lake City mayor Carl Wimmer, member of the Utah House of Representatives from 2006-2012 Miscellaneous Heather Armstrong, blogger, dooce.com Martha Nibley