Gary Glenn

Gary Glenn was elected to the Michigan House of Representatives in November 2014, representing the 98th House District comprising the cities of Auburn, Linwood, Midland, and Pinconning, the village of Sanford, and thirteen suburban and rural townships in Bay and Midland counties. He serves as vice chairman of the House Energy Policy Committee and on the House Commerce and Trade, Military and Veterans Affairs, and Tax Policy committees.

Glenn was reelected in 2016 with just over 60 percent of the vote. Two days later, the incoming Republican House Caucus for the 2017-18 session selected him as Associate Speaker of the House Pro Tem, the same position current Speaker Kevin Cotter held during his second term.

Michigan Information and Research Service, Lansing's oldest daily legislative news service, selected Rep. Glenn from among 55 first-term state representatives and senators as its MIRS "Freshman Legislator of the Year" in 2015, specifically citing his leadership and impact on energy policy and civil asset forfeiture reforms. In his first term, he compiled a voting record that earned a 100 percent score from Americans for Prosperity-Michigan and from the state chapter of the National Federation of Independent Business. He won the American Conservatives Union's "Award for Conservative Excellence" for scoring the most conservative voting record in the Michigan House in 2015, and he is routinely scored among the most conservative members of the House by multiple news outlets and interest groups.

He is a Republican from Larkin Township and as president of the American Family Association of Michigan, he coauthored the state's Marriage Protection Amendment overwhelmingly approved by voters in 2004.^[1]

In 2011, he was a founding board member of the Michigan Freedom to Work coalition, which launched the successful effort to enact a state Right to Work law prohibiting compulsory union affiliation or financial support. As executive director of the Idaho Freedom to Work Committee from 1980–86, he had led the successful effort to enact the same law in that state in 1985. In 2015, the National Right to Work Committee named Glenn the recipient of its highest honor, the Senator Everett M. Dirksen Award, for a lifetime of achievement and commitment to the principle of individual freedom in the workplace.

In 2014, and again in 2016, the Abolitionist Roundtable, an organization of African-American radio talk show personalities in the metro Detroit area, named him the recipient of its annual "Champion of Liberty Award" for his work towards economically and socially conservative policies. In 2011, he was named “Citizen of the Year” by Citizens for Community Values during the South Bend, Indiana-based social conservative advocacy group's annual banquet on the campus of Notre Dame University.

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