About Amy

The daughter of Larry and Janet Hance, Amy is a fourth generation resident of Wright County who grew up with her five brothers and sisters on their family farm just outside of Buffalo in Chatham township.

Amy graduated from Buffalo High School and attended Concordia College in Moorhead before enlisting in the US Air Force in 1992. It was during her time in the military that she met and married her husband Christopher and gave birth to their daughter, Rachel.

Amy served her country as a Russian Linguist, graduating from the Defense Language Institute at the Presidio of Monterey, California before being assigned to the National Security Agency in Fort Meade, Maryland just outside of Washington DC. She graduated with honors at all stages of her military training and received the Joint Service Commendation Medal for her contributions to the intelligence community.

Upon receiving her honorable discharge in 1996, Amy returned home to Buffalo and went to work helping to manage and build her family’s utility service company which more than doubled in size over the next few years. Attending classes at night and on the weekends, Amy earned her B.E.S. from St. Cloud State University with a minor in Business Administration, graduating in the spring of 1999. She is currently working toward her MBA.

Amy is a former Vice Chair of the Senate District 19 Leadership Committee and has been a delegate to her BPOU, Congressional, and State conventions. She won special election to the senate in 2005 and was reelected in 2006 and 2010. In 2010 she was elected by the Senate Republican Caucus as the first female Majority Leader in the Minnesota State Senate. Amy is active as a volunteer at St. Francis Xavier, Buffalo and as an adult leader for Wright County 4-H.