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News of the Day March 20, 2026
Wisconsin Senate Majority Leader Devin LeMahieu to Retire
The Republican leader of the Wisconsin Senate has announced he’s retiring.
Senate Majority Leader Devin LeMahieu, R-Oostburg, announced his decision Thursday. It comes just weeks after Assembly Speaker Robin Vos, R-Rochester, announced his own retirement.
LeMahieu called serving in the Senate “the privilege of a lifetime,” but said “the time has come for a new chapter in my life.”
“I am looking forward to spending more time with my wife in our new Madison-area home and, for the first time since 2006, rooting for bold conservative reform from the sidelines,” LeMahieu said in a statement.
LeMahieu was first elected to the Senate in 2014. In 2021, Republicans chose him to be their majority leader, then reelected him to that position in 2023 and 2025.
For LeMahieu, running for the Legislature meant following in his family’s footsteps. His father, Daniel LeMahieu, served in the state Assembly from 2003 until 2015.
LeMahieu’s district is likely to stay in Republican hands. President Donald Trump carried it by about 16 percentage points in 2024, according to an analysis by Marquette University Law School. Evers lost it by about 14 points in 2022, even as he won his statewide race for governor.