Katy Jackman Tyndell is an attorney, business owner, and Kansan whose family roots in this state run back five generations. She grew up in a tiny ranching and farming town where everyone took responsibility, worked hard, and looked out for each other. It was this upbringing that instilled a work ethic and grit that have shaped every chapter of Katy’s life.

After earning her law degree, Katy was hired as staff attorney for the National Congress of American Indians — where she fought to give voice to those too often overlooked. She worked closely with tribal leaders, lawmakers, and federal agencies on matters of import to tribes across the country, and she helped pass the Tribal Law and Order Act and the Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act of 2013, landmark pieces of legislation aimed at improving law enforcement in Indian Country and holding criminals accountable.

Now, Wichita is home, where Katy helps run her family’s Kansas-based businesses, which includes an independent oil and gas operating company that her grandfather started more than five decades ago. For more than a decade, she has helped the company provide good jobs, healthcare, and economic opportunity to its employees, while successfully navigating a global pandemic and increasingly volatile commodity prices. But recent decisions out of Washington have made it increasingly hard for small vertical operators to thrive. She has seen up close how short-sighted policy decisions and a dysfunctional legislature can hurt small businesses and punish working Kansans.

In 2025, Katy co-founded Leading Kansas, a nonpartisan civic engagement organization dedicated to defending freedom, protecting democratic institutions, securing Kansas, and championing the truth. Leading Kansas is focused on finding common ground by bringing voices of all kinds together to demand policies serve the people, not special interests or partisan politics. Their work has been recognized on both sides of the aisle as a productive, intentional way to bring politics to the people. Additionally, Katy recently served as Chair of the Sedgwick County Fire District One Steering Council and has volunteered with Kansas Moms Demand Action and her local NAACP.

However, with the stakes being so high today, Katy knows that real change doesn’t happen from the outside. The challenges today require a real seat at the table and someone willing to step into the arena.

Katy’s father told her that protecting freedom for future generations requires sacrifice. She’s never forgotten those words, and she believes this is the moment that calls for it. With the steadfast support of her husband and family, she is running to ensure that her three children—and children across America—inherit a country where truth, freedom, and opportunity endure.

Katy wants leaders in DC who will lead with integrity, who will fight for working families, who understand the stakes involved, and who will always put the people ahead of partisan politics.

Katy knows the issues we face right now are big – we need to bring down costs, make housing more affordable, expand access to healthcare, improve our schools, support our farmers and defend the rule of law. It’s time our leaders showed up to face these challenges and come up with real solutions that make a difference in people’s lives. Since he was first elected in 2017, Ron Estes has failed to hold in-person town halls that don’t require payment to participate – it’s time we have a leader who shows up to lower costs for families in our community.

Most importantly, Katy believes a sense of responsibility – to your neighbors, to your community, to the next generation – is exactly what’s missing in Washington today. Instead of leaders who show up for us, we’ve got career politicians who answer to their biggest donors and leave the rest of us to fend for ourselves. She will fight to change that.