A breakfast listening session with local tribal leaders, Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue, U.S. Senator Mike Rounds and Representative Kristi Noem, at the Oglala Lakota College, in Rapid City, SD. on May 19, 2017. USDA photo by Lance Cheung.
Speculation is growing that South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem will be Donald Trump’s pick for running mate. Kristina Peterson of The Wall Street Journal discusses Noem’s career, writing:
The 1990 South Dakota “Snow Queen,” Noem grew up working on her parents’ farm and cattle ranch in the northeastern part of the state. She became the general manager of the farm’s business operations after her father died in a grain-bin accident when she was 22 and eight-months pregnant with the first of her three children.
“She’s a smart, tough farm kid,” said state Sen. Lee Schoenbeck, a Republican who at times clashed with Noem as governor. “This isn’t somebody that’s had a Barbie doll, easy way through life.”
Noem served in the South Dakota Legislature before being elected to the U.S. House in 2010. In Washington, she slept in her House office and dressed down her own GOP leaders when a version of the farm bill, which sets agricultural policy, failed in 2013. After four terms in Congress, she was elected governor of South Dakota in 2018 and re-elected in 2022.
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