18 Facts About Kimberly Yee

Kimberly Yee was born on February 23,1974 and is an American politician serving as the 45th Arizona state treasurer.

Kimberly Yee is the first Asian-American woman elected to the Arizona State Legislature.

Kimberly Yee was born and raised in Phoenix, Arizona; she traces her ancestry to Taishan, Guangdong.

Kimberly Yee attended Greenway High School in Phoenix where she was a student journalist at the Demon Dispatch in the early 1990s.

Kimberly Yee is a graduate of Pepperdine University where she earned a bachelor's degree in political science and a bachelor's degree in English.

Kimberly Yee holds a master's degree in public administration from Arizona State University's School of Public Affairs, and was the recipient of the honored Scholar-Citizen Award.

Kimberly Yee worked for California governors Pete Wilson and Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Kimberly Yee was then communications director at the office of the state treasurer of Arizona.

Kimberly Yee served as state committeeman for the Arizona Republican Party, chair of the Arizona Legislative District 10 Republican Committee, and delegate for Arizona at the 2008 Republican National Convention.

Kimberly Yee was an invited speaker at the 2016 Republican National Convention.

Kimberly Yee represented District 20 in the Arizona Senate from 2013 to 2019.

Kimberly Yee served as state Senate majority leader from 2017 to 2019.

Kimberly Yee became the second woman elected to this position in Arizona's history, following US Justice Sandra Day O'Connor who served the position in 1973, forty-four years earlier.

Kimberly Yee went on to create a statewide literacy task force, a 16-member board assigned the job of identifying the scope of financial literacy and proposing solutions for improvement.

Today, assets under Treasurer Kimberly Yee's management stands at $24 billion, an increase of over 54 percent in two years.

Kimberly Yee wrote an op-ed in support of President Trump and his vision of the American dream.

On May 17,2021, Kimberly Yee announced her candidacy for Governor of Arizona in the 2022 Arizona gubernatorial election.

Kimberly Yee later dropped out of the governor's race, running for re-election as Arizona State Treasurer.