Bob Evnen

Robert Barnett Evnen is an American attorney and Republican politician in the state of Nebraska. He is the 27th Secretary of State of Nebraska, serving since 2019.
Evnen was first elected Secretary of State in 2018 [Nebraska elections|2018], and re-elected in 2022 after winning the Republican primary with 40% of the vote.

Legal career

Evnen graduated from Michigan State University with a bachelor's degree in social science in 1974 and from the University of Southern California's Gould School of Law with a Juris Doctor in 1977. He was a partner at the Lincoln, Nebraska law firm Woods & Aitken, LLP for 32 years, where he practiced labor and employment law. He is licensed to practice law in Nebraska, Iowa, and California.

Political career

Evnen served as a member of the State Board of Education, following his appointment by Governor Dave Heineman in 2005 and he was elected to a full term in 2008. He also served as general counsel to the Republican Party">Republican Party (United States)">Republican Party and as campaign treasurer for U.S. Senator Deb Fischer.
In the 2018 elections, Evnen ran for Secretary of State of Nebraska. He won the election, defeating Spencer Danner, the Democratic Party nominee, and was sworn into office on January 10, 2019. Evnen supported Nebraska Attorney General Doug Peterson's decision to sign on to a lawsuit contesting the 2020 United States presidential election. Evnen's office later investigated allegations of voter fraud, saying that they "haven't found any validity or merit" to them.
Evnen ran for a second term in the 2022 election. He won the Republican primary with 40% of the vote, defeating two candidates who had endorsed President Donald Trump's false allegations of voter fraud in the 2020 presidential election, and won the general election unopposed.