Phil Lyman

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Phil Lyman
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Utah House of Representatives District 69
Tenure

2023 - Present

Term ends

2025

Years in position

1

Predecessor
Prior offices
Utah House of Representatives District 73
Successor: Colin Jack
Predecessor: Michael Noel

Compensation

Base salary

$293.55/legislative day

Elections and appointments
Last elected

November 8, 2022

Education

Bachelor's

Brigham Young University, 1989

Graduate

University of Utah, 1999

Personal
Profession
Accountant
Contact

Phil Lyman (Republican Party) is a member of the Utah House of Representatives, representing District 69. He assumed office on January 1, 2023. His current term ends on January 1, 2025.

Lyman (Republican Party) ran for election for Governor of Utah. He lost in the Republican primary on June 25, 2024.

Biography

Phil Lyman earned a B.S. in accounting from Brigham Young University in 1989 and an M.S. in accounting from the University of Utah in 1999. His career experience includes working as an accountant at his own company and as the chief financial officer at Sage Memorial Hospital. Lyman became a commissioner for San Juan County, Utah.[1]

Committee assignments

2023-2024

Lyman was assigned to the following committees:

2021-2022

Lyman was assigned to the following committees:

2019-2020

Lyman was assigned to the following committees:


The following table lists bills this person sponsored as a legislator, according to BillTrack50 and sorted by action history. Bills are sorted by the date of their last action. The following list may not be comprehensive. To see all bills this legislator sponsored, click on the legislator's name in the title of the table.


Elections

2024

See also: Utah gubernatorial and lieutenant gubernatorial election, 2024

General election

General election for Governor of Utah

The following candidates are running in the general election for Governor of Utah on November 5, 2024.

Candidate
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Spencer Cox (R)
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Brian King (D)
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Tommy Williams (Independent American Party)
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Tom Tomeny (Unaffiliated)
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Charlie Tautuaa (Independent) (Write-in)

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Republican primary election

Republican primary for Governor of Utah

Incumbent Spencer Cox defeated Phil Lyman in the Republican primary for Governor of Utah on June 25, 2024.

Candidate
%
Votes
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Spencer Cox
 
59.5
 
149,361
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Phil Lyman
 
40.5
 
101,761

Total votes: 251,122
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates

Independent American Party primary election

The Independent American Party primary election was canceled. Tommy Williams advanced from the Independent American Party primary for Governor of Utah.

Libertarian primary election

The Libertarian primary election was canceled. J. Robert Latham advanced from the Libertarian primary for Governor of Utah.

Democratic convention

Democratic convention for Governor of Utah

Brian King advanced from the Democratic convention for Governor of Utah on April 27, 2024.

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Brian King (D)

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Republican convention

Republican Convention for Governor of Utah

The following candidates advanced in the ranked-choice voting election: Phil Lyman in round 2 . The results of Round are displayed below. To see the results of other rounds, use the dropdown menu above to select a round and the table will update.


Total votes: 3,759
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Independent American Party convention

Independent American Party convention for Governor of Utah

Tommy Williams advanced from the Independent American Party convention for Governor of Utah on April 27, 2024.

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Tommy Williams (Independent American Party)

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Libertarian convention

Libertarian convention for Governor of Utah

J. Robert Latham advanced from the Libertarian convention for Governor of Utah on April 20, 2024.

Candidate
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2022

See also: Utah House of Representatives elections, 2022

General election

General election for Utah House of Representatives District 69

Incumbent Phil Lyman defeated Davina Smith in the general election for Utah House of Representatives District 69 on November 8, 2022.

Candidate
%
Votes
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Phil Lyman (R)
 
59.0
 
11,170
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Davina Smith (D)
 
41.0
 
7,766

Total votes: 18,936
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Democratic primary election

The Democratic primary election was canceled. Davina Smith advanced from the Democratic primary for Utah House of Representatives District 69.

Republican primary election

The Republican primary election was canceled. Incumbent Phil Lyman advanced from the Republican primary for Utah House of Representatives District 69.

Democratic convention

Democratic convention for Utah House of Representatives District 69

Davina Smith advanced from the Democratic convention for Utah House of Representatives District 69 on April 23, 2022.

Candidate
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Davina Smith (D)

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Republican convention

Republican convention for Utah House of Representatives District 69

Incumbent Phil Lyman advanced from the Republican convention for Utah House of Representatives District 69 on April 23, 2022.

Candidate
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Phil Lyman (R)

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2020

See also: Utah House of Representatives elections, 2020

General election

General election for Utah House of Representatives District 73

Incumbent Phil Lyman won election in the general election for Utah House of Representatives District 73 on November 3, 2020.

Candidate
%
Votes
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Phil Lyman (R)
 
100.0
 
14,518

Total votes: 14,518
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Democratic primary election

Withdrawn or disqualified candidates

Republican convention

Republican convention for Utah House of Representatives District 73

Incumbent Phil Lyman advanced from the Republican convention for Utah House of Representatives District 73 on April 25, 2020.

Candidate
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Phil Lyman (R)

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2018

See also: Utah House of Representatives elections, 2018

General election

General election for Utah House of Representatives District 73

Phil Lyman defeated Marsha Holland in the general election for Utah House of Representatives District 73 on November 6, 2018.

Candidate
%
Votes
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Phil Lyman (R)
 
67.5
 
9,388
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Marsha Holland (Independent)
 
32.5
 
4,528

Total votes: 13,916
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Campaign themes

2024

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Campaign website

Lyman’s campaign website stated the following:

Policy
Public Land
Policy Vision
Utah Public Land
The lands contained within the state of Utah have shaped who we are as a people, and as I drive across this state with diverse landscapes and abundant resources, I believe we could be so much more. As someone who has seen his best friends killed as a consequence of federal overreach and control of our public lands, it surprises me that our state hasn’t done more to control the resources and lands within our borders. When I see magazine covers boasting that we’re the #1 state in the nation, I have to wonder what they mean by “state.” At best, we’re the #1 federally managed colony in the nation. Between the directors of the Bureau of Land Management and the U.S. Forest Service, two unelected administrative offies in Washington D.C. have more control over what happens on Utah land than the governor of our state.

Education
Policy Vision
When it comes to K-12 public schools, Utah must…

  • Prioritize foundational academics first
  • Protect conscience & religious belief in schools
  • Restore schools to their limited and proper role
  • Respect the family’s unique & comprehensive role
  • Respect the Teachers who play a vital role in public education; Teachers are central to public education
  • Reject partnerships, programs, policies & practices that exploit children

Education
Policy Vision
When it comes to K-12 public schools, Utah must…
Prioritize foundational academics first

  • Utah spending on public education is at an all-time high of $7.3 billion, and yet our students’ proficiency scores keep declining.
  • We need to stop throwing money and resources at widely promoted but deeply flawed approaches, such as intrusive social emotional surveys & lessons, discriminatory social justice ideologies, sexualized content, labeling kids according to identity politics, and excessive use of tech to program & track student mindsets.
  • With a strong focus on time-tested, traditional methods & content to teach reading, writing, arithmetic, history, and science, our children will be prepared to think and act wisely based on objective & self-evident truths.

Protect conscience & religious belief in schools

  • Our schools are becoming battle grounds for society’s culture wars and our children are on the front lines.
  • Children need to know they can act on their sincerely held internal sense of right and wrong without fear of punishment.
  • By upholding strong laws like 53G-10-205, we send a clear message that a school must respect students’ and parents’ rights to not participate in any aspect of school that would violate their conscience or religious belief, which protects them from being complicit in their own indoctrination.

Restore schools to their limited and proper role

  • A wise approach is to prepare the child for the road, not the road for the child. Schools have a proper role; providing every imaginable need—medical, psychological, behavioral, emotional & physical—even providing for food, clothing & shelter is outside that role.
  • By transforming schools into social welfare service centers, we incentivize dependency mindsets & habits in our children & families, leading to expensive, unsustainable programs that place unwarranted burdens taxpayers.
  • Less is more! Schools must be schools, with a streamlined focus on scholastic achievement and merit—budget reforms will ensure schools don’t drain taxpayers, or encroach on family time, responsibilities, and privacy.

Respect the family’s unique & comprehensive role

  • Teachers play a vital role in public education; in fact, they are central to public education. The role of parents is inviolable and nontransferable. Systems that understand and respect these roles are positioned to make policy that is beneficial to teachers, students, parents, and society. Systems that fail to respect these roles are bound to a string of failed policies.
  • No school, regardless of how well meaning its programs & people, can take the place of a healthy family— families are the fundamental unit of all free and civilized societies. Utah should be the role model of family-centered schools.
  • Utah law upholds parents as the primary educators of their children. Schools should always defer to parents to address sensitive, controversial, or personal issues or questions involving their students. Students should be referred to a parent’s direct care when behavioral issues arise that create hostile learning environments.
  • Students or parents who create a dangerous environment for other students must be dealt with swiftly and decisively. No violence against teachers should be allowed, and teachers must be empowered to have students removed from schools when their behavior is a threat.

Reject partnerships, programs, policies & practices that exploit children

  • There are too many micromanaging middlemen who stand to profit financially, politically, and socially by manipulating children and dictating what happens in the classroom.
  • A child’s education should not be a means to somebody else’s ends—it should be the end, in and of itself.
  • To protect impressionable youth, the state must ensure that schools do not use children to promote global, national, or local agendas, fill workforce quotas, solve for real or manufactured societal problems, or lobby or agitate as activists for causes inside or outside of school.

Statement on Higher Education
Article X, Section 1 of the Utah constitution states: “The Legislature shall provide for the establishment… of a higher education system.”

State colleges and universities should be bastions for free expression. They should challenge students to expand their views and to broaden their comprehension of the world around them. Still, they are state establishments and, as such, should refuse to host drag shows, should ban the practice of requiring preferred pronouns on campus, and should require U.S history and government classes. They should root out insurgent foreign ideology such as Chinese influence, environmentalist and climate change dogma, and other unfounded and cultish creeds, including religious tenets, that require unnatural adherence.

Public Land
Policy Vision
Utah Public Land
The lands contained within the state of Utah have shaped who we are as a people, and as I drive across this state with diverse landscapes and abundant resources, I believe we could be so much more. As someone who has seen his best friends killed as a consequence of federal overreach and control of our public lands, it surprises me that our state hasn’t done more to control the resources and lands within our borders. Until we do, Utah will never reach its full potential. When I see magazine covers boasting that we’re the #1 state in the nation, I have to wonder what they mean by “state.” At best, we’re the #1 federally managed colony in the nation. Between the directors of the Bureau of Land Management and the U.S. Forest Service, two unelected administrators in Washington D.C. have more control over what happens on Utah land than the governor of our state. I’m running to be governor of this state, as Governor, I intend to govern all of it.

State Institutional Trust Lands
Wyoming’s trust lands include a 640-acre parcel in the middle of a national park that is currently valued at $62.4 million dollars. Under the leadership of the current governor, Utah’s State Institutional Trust Lands Administration is proposing to trade 162,000 acres of trust lands within the Bears Ears National Monument. If the Bears Ears SITLA trade performs as well financially as the Grand Staircase trade did, we can expect the trade to bring in $28 million a year to our school system. For reference, Iron County is currently considering a $75 million dollar bond proposal to fund a small portion of its education system. It makes no sense that Wyoming’s SITLA lands located in the midst of federally protected areas is worth $100,000 an acre, and Utah’s SITLA lands are essentially worthless. If our SITLA land was valued as richly as Wyoming’s, the bare minimum we should be seeking in a land exchange with the federal government $15.7 billion dollars.

Yet, our state leaders are satisfied with a few hundred million dollars for this exchange. If they trade off our SITLA lands for a song, there is no way we can go back and do this over again. This is a failure of leadership and an insult to Utah families who now must pay exorbitant property taxes to fund our education system because SITLA is failing to uphold its fiduciary responsibilities and fund our education system. If SITLA negotiated Wyoming land values for its Bears Ears holdings and wisely invested the billions of dollars this land is worth, we would be able to fund our entire education system from just the investment returns in 20 years and eliminate most property taxes.

Federal Natural Resources Policy Account
The state of Wyoming maintains a Federal Natural Resources Policy Account, which allocates up to $50 million dollars a year for the state to litigate federal land management decisions that hurt the state of Wyoming. On the same day that the Utah Governor’s Public Land Policy Coordinating Office announced a legal challenge to a terrible decision to close 317 miles of popular backcountry roads in Moab, the announcement also said Governor Cox is “urging collaboration.” Litigation is the step you take when a collaboration has failed. You can’t stand up for the state of Utah and “disagree better” with the radical bureaucrats that are running President Biden’s Bureau of Land Management.

None of the major policy decisions coming from Washington that impact Utah’s lands suggest the existence of a good faith negotiating partner who can collaborate to find consensus. To urge collaboration at the moment of announced litigation is a broadcast of weakness, and it’s no surprise federal land managers believe they can walk all over Utah. As governor I would assert our coordination rights as a state on every federal land policy change to ensure that every federal land management decision that hurts Utah is litigated to the full extent of the law. Like Wyoming, I would make sure we have a dedicated fund to ensure that every adverse federal decision is litigated. While I appreciate that the current governor has litigated some of the bad management decisions that have hurt Utah, I question the sincerity and commitment to these fights when litigation announcements are coupled with calls to “disagree better.”

Roads Will Stay Open
Our backcountry system of roads in this state are the lifeblood of our rural communities. The roads themselves are also a valuable historical and cultural resource. As governor I will fight against the radical environmental movement that is working to close our roads and turn our rural counties into inaccessible wilderness.

State Transfer of Public Lands
I support the legislation that would transfer federally controlled lands to state ownership. The State of Utah would be a better steward of these lands. Our governor and attorney general should make it a top priority to advance any legal challenge that would force the federal government to keep the promises it made in our state’s enabling legislation.[2]

—Phil Lyman’s campaign website (2024)[3]

2022

Phil Lyman did not complete Ballotpedia's 2022 Candidate Connection survey.

2020

Phil Lyman did not complete Ballotpedia's 2020 Candidate Connection survey.

Noteworthy events

Lieutenant Governor lawsuit (2024)

On April 29, Utah’s Office of the Lieutenant Governor prevented Lyman’s running mate in the 2024 Utah gubernatorial election, Layne Bangerter (R), from filing his declaration of candidacy. The office, which oversees elections in Utah, declined Bangerter’s filing because they determined he did not meet the state’s residency requirements.[4]

Bangerter and Lyman filed a lawsuit against Lt. Gov. Deidre Henderson (D) and Director of Elections Ryan Cowley, asking the state to accept Bangerter's candidacy. On May 3, Third Judicial District Judge Matthew Bates ruled that Bangerter was ineligible to serve because he had not lived in the state for five consecutive years immediately preceding the election.[5]

In response to the ruling, Bangerter said, "It was an honor to be considered to run alongside Phil Lyman. He is going to be a great governor for the state of Utah, and I plan to help however I can."[6] Lyman selected Natalie Clawson (R) as his running mate.[7]

Campaign finance summary


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Phil Lyman campaign contribution history
YearOfficeStatusContributionsExpenditures
2024* Governor of UtahLost primary$0 $0
2022Utah House of Representatives District 69Won general$49,781 $-33,298
2020Utah House of Representatives District 73Won general$17,819 N/A**
2018Utah House of Representatives District 73Won general$19,576 N/A**
Grand total$87,175 $-33,298
Sources: OpenSecretsFederal Elections Commission ***This product uses the openFEC API but is not endorsed or certified by the Federal Election Commission (FEC).
* Data from this year may not be complete
** Data on expenditures is not available for this election cycle
Note: Totals above reflect only availabale data.

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Footnotes

Political offices
Preceded by
Christine Watkins (R)
Utah House of Representatives District 69
2023-Present
Succeeded by
-
Preceded by
Michael Noel (R)
Utah House of Representatives District 73
2019-2023
Succeeded by
Colin Jack (R)