Kelly Armstrong is an attorney, businessman, and former North Dakota State Senator. As a leader in the North Dakota Senate, Armstrong has successfully passed legislation on a wide range of issues important to the state including surge funding during the oil boom, DUI reform, and legislation passed during the DAPL protests to ensure law enforcement had the tools they needed to protect North Dakota residents. Armstrong also authored and passed legislation during the last session that helped ensure private mineral ownership would remain with the ranchers, farmers, and families they belong, not taken by the state. On November 6, 2018, he was elected to serve as North Dakota’s next Congressman.
Armstrong attended the University of North Dakota where he earned a law degree and met his, Kjersti. They now live in Dickinson, ND, and have two children, Anna and Eli.