List of speakers of the Nebraska Legislature

The speaker of the Nebraska Legislature is the highest-ranking officer elected from among the membership of the Nebraska Legislature. The speaker presides over the body in the absence of the lieutenant governor. The speaker is generally recognized to be the parliamentary leader of the Nebraska Legislature and, with the approval of the executive board, determines the legislative agenda. The speaker has the privilege of speaking at any stage of the legislature's proceedings in accordance with their responsibilities as speaker.
The speaker is second in line to become the Governor of Nebraska if both the offices of governor and lieutenant governor become simultaneously vacant.
Before the creation of this office, Nebraska had a bicameral legislature, and the leaders of the upper and lower houses were, respectively, the president pro tempore of the Nebraska Senate and the speaker of the Nebraska House of Representatives.

List

The following is a list of the speakers of the Nebraska Legislature since it became a unicameral body in 1937.

#	Image	Name	Party	Tenure	District	City of residence	Notes
1			Rep	1937–1938	25	Waverly	Later served as Lieutenant Governor of Nebraska; Father of Jerome Warner, the 18th Speaker; Served during a vacancy in the office of lieutenant governor from June 26 to Nov. 8, 1938
2			Dem	1939–1940	24	Gresham
3			Rep	1941–1942	44	Sutherland
4			Rep	1943–1944	45	North Platte	Later served as Lieutenant Governor and Governor of Nebraska
5			Rep	1945–1946	29	Lincoln
6			Dem	1947–1948	35	Central City	-
7			Rep	1949–1950	15	Fremont
8			Rep	1951–1952	38	McCook	Resigned as senator to accept appointment of Gov. Robert Crosby as assistant agriculture director
9			Rep	1952	48	Gering	Selected to finish the term of Speaker Hoyt
10			Dem	1953–1954	7	Omaha
11			Rep	1955–1956	19	Hartington	Later served as Lieutenant Governor and Governor of Nebraska; Served during a vacancy in the office of lieutenant governor from Sep. 24, 1955, to Jan. 1, 1957
12			Rep	1957–1958	16	Beemer
13			Rep	1959–1960	45	North Platte	Served during a vacancy in the office of lieutenant governor from Sep. 9, 1960, to Jan. 3, 1961
14			Rep	1961–1962	38	McCook
15			Rep	1963–1964	8	Omaha
16			Rep	1965–1966	37	Red Cloud
17			Rep	1967–1968	43	Valentine
18			Rep	1969–1970	25	Waverly	Son of Charles J. Warner, the first speaker
19			Rep	1971–1972	18	West Point
20			Rep	1973–1974	12	Omaha
21			Dem	1975–1976	19	Hartington
22			Rep	1977–1978	28	Lincoln	Later served as Lieutenant Governor of Nebraska
23			Rep	1979–1982	33	Hastings
24			Rep	1983–1986	48	Scottsbluff	Later served as Lieutenant Governor of Nebraska
25			Rep	1987–1990	39	Lexington	Later served as a U.S. representative
26			Rep	1991–1993	47	Kimball	Resigned as senator to become the executive director of the Nebraska Community College Association
27			Dem	1994–1996	14	Papillion	Elected to finish the term of Speaker Baack
28			Rep	1997–2002	37	Minden	Later became chancellor of the University of Nebraska at Kearney
29			Rep	2003–2004	23	Wahoo
30			Rep	2005–2006	4	Omaha	Served during a vacancy in the office of lieutenant governor from Jan. 20 to Jan. 24, 2005
31			Rep	2007–2012	19	Norfolk	Later became a U.S. representative
32			Rep	2013–2014	24	York	Served during two vacancies in the office of lieutenant governor from Feb. 2 to Feb. 13, 2013, and from Sep. 9 to Sep. 29, 2014
33			Rep	2015–2016	37	Kearney
34			Rep	2017–2020	19	Norfolk
35			Rep	2021–2022	21	Lincoln	Later became the Nebraska Attorney General
36			Rep	2023–Present	14	La Vista