Shelley Lenz
Democratic-NPL · ND
Dickinson veterinarian who has owned and run State Avenue Veterinary Clinic for nearly twenty years. Focuses on workforce growth, rural health care access and school investment.
Where Shelley Lenz stands, based on their records
Supports
Environment and Public Health (2 records)
Opposes
Government Spending Reduction (1 record)
Track record
Track record — Environment and Public Health
Environment and Public Health · 2 support
Submitted written testimony on 2025-01-30 supporting Senate Bill 2246. The bill proposed state money to study creating a regenerative grazing ranch to measure how rangeland stores carbon. The bill failed.
January 30, 2025Supports Environment and Public Health
Source: ndlegis.gov
Submitted written testimony on 2021-02-04 to the North Dakota Senate Agriculture Committee supporting Senate Bill 2342. The bill added soil restoration to state soil conservation law and set up a statewide soil health network. The bill failed.
February 4, 2021Supports Environment and Public Health
Source: ndlegis.gov
Track record — Government Spending Reduction
Government Spending Reduction · 1 oppose
Submitted written testimony on 2025-01-30 supporting Senate Bill 2246. The bill proposed state money to study creating a regenerative grazing ranch to measure how rangeland stores carbon. The bill failed.
January 30, 2025Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: ndlegis.gov
Track record — General
General · 4 records
Submitted written testimony on 2025-01-16 opposing Senate Bill 2129, a rewrite of North Dakota's veterinary practice law. She argued it gave the state veterinary board too much power over private clinics and asked that it be studied instead. The bill passed.
January 16, 2025
Source: ndlegis.gov
Ran as the Democratic-NPL nominee for North Dakota governor and lost to Governor Doug Burgum in the 2020-11-03 general election.
November 3, 2020
Source: en.wikipedia.org
Founded and led Sustainable Vets International, a nonprofit started in 2014 that runs veterinary, farming and job-training programs in poor regions of Latin America, Africa and Asia. The Jamestown Sun reported her role on 2020-01-31.
January 31, 2020
Source: jamestownsun.com
Opened a new 16-acre complex for her State Ave Veterinary Clinic in north Dickinson on 2015-11-14. The clinic had grown from a mobile van practice she started in Killdeer in 2007 and employed four veterinarians.
November 14, 2015
Source: thedickinsonpress.com
Past race Shelley Lenz ran in:
- State Representative · November 3, 2026 · State House District 37; North Dakota