Marsia Geldert-Murphey
Democratic · IL
Marsia ‘Marsie’ Geldert-Murphey is the Democratic nominee for Illinois Senate District 56. A licensed civil engineer and engineering executive with more than three decades of transportation, infrastructure, utility, rail, and development experience, she served as the American Society of Civil Engineers' 2024 president and has founded and led engineering businesses.
Campaign Finance Information — Illinois State Senator, 56th Legislative District
Campaign Finance Information · Illinois State Senator, 56th Legislative District · November 3, 2026
Data last updated July 27, 2026
- Raised
- $47,720
- Spent
- $20,053
- Cash on hand
- $27,667
- Debts
- $0
Top disclosed occupations of direct donors
- Chairman$2,500
- Civic Engineer$1,050
- NA$1,000
- President$1,000
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- Executive Director$560
Direct contributions by size
- $1,000-$4,999$6,500
- $500-$999$3,500
- $250-$499$3,550
- $100-$249$955
- $1-$99$170
Source: Illinois State Board of Elections · 2026 cycle · elections.il.gov
Track record
Government Efficiency
· 1 record
Geldert-Murphey says her engineering approach to policymaking emphasizes context, tradeoffs, transparency, and assessing real-world impacts.
February 13, 2026For
Source: thetelegraph.com · researched July 18, 2026
Healthcare Affordability
· 2 records
Geldert-Murphey supports robust healthcare funding and reforms intended to protect access to affordable care amid Medicaid cuts.
July 17, 2026For
Source: marsieforillinois.info · researched July 18, 2026
Geldert-Murphey identified affordability for housing, healthcare, energy, and everyday expenses as a central campaign concern and proposed union jobs and infrastructure projects as part of her response.
February 13, 2026For
Source: thetelegraph.com · researched July 18, 2026
Housing Affordability
· 1 record
Geldert-Murphey identified affordability for housing, healthcare, energy, and everyday expenses as a central campaign concern and proposed union jobs and infrastructure projects as part of her response.
February 13, 2026For
Source: thetelegraph.com · researched July 18, 2026
Social Programs and Welfare
· 1 record
Geldert-Murphey supports expanded access to high-quality early care and education and full funding for school nutrition programs.
July 17, 2026For
Source: marsieforillinois.info · researched July 18, 2026
Public Education Quality
· 2 records
Geldert-Murphey supports expanded access to high-quality early care and education and full funding for school nutrition programs.
July 17, 2026For
Source: marsieforillinois.info · researched July 18, 2026
Geldert-Murphey earned civil-engineering degrees from South Dakota State University and Missouri University of Science and Technology and later received an honorary doctorate from Missouri S&T.
May 11, 2024For
Source: marsieforillinois.info · researched July 18, 2026
Corporate Accountability
· 1 record
In 2006, Geldert-Murphey founded a company that grew to $8 million in revenue within five years, acquired an environmental consulting firm, and added a union-signatory contracting division.
January 1, 2006For
Source: marsieforillinois.info · researched July 18, 2026
Public Infrastructure
· 4 records
Geldert-Murphey's campaign supports infrastructure investment to grow clean-energy, manufacturing, and logistics jobs in District 56.
July 17, 2026For
Source: marsieforillinois.info · researched July 18, 2026
Geldert-Murphey identified affordability for housing, healthcare, energy, and everyday expenses as a central campaign concern and proposed union jobs and infrastructure projects as part of her response.
February 13, 2026For
Source: thetelegraph.com · researched July 18, 2026
Geldert-Murphey testified before a U.S. House committee in 2018 about small-business perspectives on developing and using national infrastructure.
March 21, 2018For
Source: marsieforillinois.info · researched July 18, 2026
After college, Geldert-Murphey worked for the Illinois Department of Transportation as assistant resident engineer on a cable-stay bridge construction project over the Mississippi River.
January 1, 1992For
Source: marsieforillinois.info · researched July 18, 2026
General
· 9 records
Geldert-Murphey has volunteered with the Women's Safe House, mentored a Triad High School engineering course and a FIRST Robotics team, and participated in ASCE mentoring and Mathcounts.
July 17, 2026
Source: marsieforillinois.info · researched July 18, 2026
Geldert-Murphey is a senior associate at GBA responsible for growing the firm's Illinois operations and has more than 30 years of engineering experience.
July 17, 2026
Source: marsieforillinois.info · researched July 18, 2026
Marsia Geldert-Murphey won the 2026 Democratic primary for Illinois Senate District 56 with 8,002 votes, or 53.47 percent.
March 17, 2026
Source: elections.il.gov · researched July 18, 2026
Geldert-Murphey previously served as ASCE Region 7 director, Region 7 governor, St. Louis Section president, Public Policy and Practice Committee chair, and on several Society-level committees.
June 3, 2022
Source: asce.org · researched July 18, 2026
American Society of Civil Engineers members elected Geldert-Murphey as the Society's president for the 2023-2024 term.
June 1, 2022
Source: asce.org · researched July 18, 2026
Geldert-Murphey sold that company in 2012 and later published the memoir Cross, Yield or Burn: Navigating the Bridges of Life in 2022.
January 1, 2022
Source: marsieforillinois.info · researched July 18, 2026
Geldert-Murphey received ASCE's Edmund Friedman Professional Recognition Award in 2016, a St. Louis Most Influential Woman award in 2010, and an Illinois Treasurer Women on the Rise award in 2010.
January 1, 2016
Source: marsieforillinois.info · researched July 18, 2026
Geldert-Murphey founded Sequoia Engineering & Environmental in 2013; the civil-engineering firm was later acquired by Gonzalez Companies.
January 1, 2013
Source: marsieforillinois.info · researched July 18, 2026
Geldert-Murphey became the first female partner at a Midwest engineering consulting firm.
January 1, 2005
Source: marsieforillinois.info · researched July 18, 2026
Elections
- Illinois State Senator, 56th Legislative District · November 3, 2026 · State Senate District 56; Illinois
Profile last researched July 18, 2026.