Representative Kelly Moller Contact information

Kelly Moller is an American politician serving in the Minnesota House of Representatives since 2019. She is a member of the Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party (DFL), and represents District 40A in the north-central Twin Cities metropolitan area. This includes the cities of Mounds View and Shoreview and parts of Ramsey County, Minnesota.

Early Life and Education: Kelly Moller attended the University of Notre Dame, graduating with a Bachelor of Business Administration in marketing. She later attended Hamline University School of Law, graduating with a Juris Doctor.

Career: Before her political career, Moller worked as a staff attorney in the Minnesota Attorney General’s Office for a decade. She is a victim rights activist and works as an assistant attorney for Hennepin County, Minnesota. She also served on the Shoreview City Public Safety Committee.

Political Career: Moller was elected to the Minnesota House of Representatives in 2018 and has been reelected every two years since. She defeated one-term Republican incumbent Randy Jessup. In the House, Moller chairs the Public Safety Finance and Policy Committee and the Ethics Committee. She also sits on the Judiciary Finance and Civil Law, Rules and Legislative Administration, and Ways and Means Committees. She served as vice chair of the Judiciary Finance and Civil Law Committee from 2021 to 2022.

Political Positions: As Public Safety chair, Moller has supported offering more resources for police recruitment and retention as well as funding for community crime and violence prevention. She has said that the state’s criminal justice system has done “a pretty bad job” at rehabilitation. After the police shooting of Daunte Wright, Moller supported legislation to limit police powers during traffic stops. Moller supports “red flag laws”, also known as extreme risk protection orders, and supported efforts to compile a database of mass shootings in the United States. In response to rising car thefts, she wrote a bill that would allow police departments to track stolen vehicles for 24 hours without first getting consent from owners. She authored changes to civil forfeiture laws for cases ending forfeitures worth less than $1,500 in most cases.

Personal Life: Kelly Moller is married to Kevin and they have two children. They reside in Shoreview, Minnesota.