Shantel Krebs

Shantel Krebs
Secretary of State of South Dakota
Assumed office
January 10, 2015
Governor Dennis Daugaard
Preceded by Jason Gant
Member of the South Dakota Senate
from the 10th district
In office
January 2011 – January 2015
Preceded by Matt McCaulley
Succeeded by Jenna Haggar
Member of the South Dakota House of Representatives
from the 10th district
In office
January 2005 – January 2011
Personal details
Born (1973-04-28) April 28, 1973
De Smet, South Dakota, U.S.
Political party Republican
Spouse(s) Mitch Krebs
Education Dakota State University (BA)

Shantel Krebs (born April 28, 1973) is an American businesswoman and current South Dakota Secretary of State[1]. She previously served in the South Dakota House of Representatives and South Dakota Senate.

Early Life and Education

Shantel Krebs was born in South Dakota and graduated from Arlington High School in Arlington, South Dakota in 1991. Krebs attended Dakota State University in Madison, South Dakota where she graduated with a Bachelors degree in Business Administration. She has been honored as a Dakota State University Distinguished Alumnus.

Business Career

Shantel Krebs comes from a family of entrepreneurs. At the early age of 10, her family's hard-working entrepreneurial spirit inspired Shantel to start her own lawn mowing business, pushing a used lawn mower for $4 a yard. Shantel continued her family's tradition of entrepreneurship and opened her own retail businesses in downtown Sioux Falls. Perviously, she also had a successful career in the healthcare industry.

Political career

Krebs represented the 10th district of the South Dakota Legislature from 2005 to 2015, serving in the House of Representatives from 2005-2011 and in the Senate from 2011-2015. Krebs was elected by her peers to Majority Whip posts in both chambers and was Chairwoman of the Transportation committee in the House and the Ag & Natural Resources committee in the Senate. Her district included Lincoln and Minnehaha counties. Working together with her fellow legislators, Krebs helped cut $127 million from the state budget without raising taxes. She worked to upgrade crumbling infrastructure and fought for the farmers and ranchers, the heart of the states economy.

State Legislature

While serving in the legislature she was awarded the South Dakota Soybean Advocate of the Year, South Dakota Corn Growers Legislator of the Year, Associated General Contractors Highway Legislative Champion, Association of Townships Legislative Award and South Dakota Farmers Union Distinguished Legislative Leader. Shantel was also selected in 2012 as a national delegate for the American Council of Young Political Leaders to China and Taiwan.

Secretary of State

In 2014, Shantel took on her own party to turn around a failing bureaucracy in the South Dakota Secretary of State’s office. She was elected and sworn in as South Dakota’s twenty-eighth Secretary of State on January 2, 2015. She brought back accountability and efficiency by operating the office like a business with zero based budgeting, audits and improving government transparency and accountability. She is known as a reformer in that office.

Krebs ran unsuccessfully in the 2018 United States House of Representatives At-Large congressional seat in the Republican primary.

Personal life

Shantel Krebs was Miss South Dakota 1997 and competed in the 1998 Miss America competition. Krebs gained media notoriety when she shot a rattlesnake on her back patio. She resides in Fort Pierre on a ranch with her husband and former TV news anchor Mitch Krebs.

Electoral history

South Dakota House of Representatives 10th District Republican Primary Election, 2002
Party Candidate Votes %
Republican Matt McCaulley 3,092 40.02
Republican Ron Williamson 2,586 30.85
Republican Shantel Krebs 1,353 26.12
South Dakota House of Representatives 10th District Republican Primary Election, 2004
Party Candidate Votes %
Republican Roger Hunt 2,892 37.02
Republican Shantel Krebs 2,566 32.85
Republican Jarrod Johnson 2,353 30.12
South Dakota House of Representatives 10th District Election, 2004
Party Candidate Votes %
Republican Roger Hunt 8,375 53.44
Republican Shantel Krebs 7,298 46.56
South Dakota House of Representatives 10th District Election, 2008
Party Candidate Votes %
Republican Shantel Krebs (inc.) 9,440 32.65
Republican Roger Hunt (inc.) 7,975 27.58
Democratic Robert Swanhorst 5,822 20.13
Democratic MaryAnn Giebink 5,678 19.64
South Dakota Senate 10th District Election, 2010
Party Candidate Votes %
Republican Shantel Krebs 9,434 64.99
Democratic George Gulson 5,083 35.01
South Dakota Senate 10th District Election, 2012
Party Candidate Votes %
Republican Shantel Krebs (inc.) 5,807 61.05
Democratic Paul Thompson 3,705 38.95
South Dakota Secretary of State Election, 2014
Party Candidate Votes %
Republican Shantel Krebs 155,647 60.23
Democratic Angelia Schultz 84,181 32.58
Constitution Lori Stacey 10,258 3.97
Libertarian Emmett Reistroffer 8,328 3.22
2018 Republican primary election – At Large Congressional District of South Dakota
Party Candidate Votes %
Republican Dusty Johnson 47,032 46.8
Republican Shantel Krebs 29,442 29.2
Republican Neal Tapio 23,980 24.0
Total votes 100,454 100

References

  1. ↑ "About the Office: South Dakota Secretary of State, Shantel Krebs". sdsos.gov. Retrieved 6 July 2017.
Awards and achievements
Preceded by
Stephanie Camp		 Miss South Dakota
1997		 Succeeded by
Sarah Frankenstein
Political offices
Preceded by
Jason Gant		 Secretary of State of South Dakota
2015–present		 Incumbent
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