Senator Derrin Owens Contact information

Derrin R. Owens is an American politician and a Republican member of the Utah State Senate. He represents Senate district 27 and previously district 24. Before his tenure in the Senate, he served the Utah House of Representatives representing District 58 from August 10, 2015 to December 31, 2020.

Owens was born in Show Low, Arizona and is the eighth of nine children. After serving a mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Chicago, Illinois, his family moved to Ephraim, Utah. He received a bachelor’s degree in Social Science from Southern Utah University and a master’s degree in Education from Grand Canyon University.

Professionally, Owens is a school counselor who works closely with the students at Juab High School. He currently lives in Fountain Green, Utah with his wife Heather and five children.

In 2015, Owens was appointed by Governor Gary Herbert after the resignation of former Representative Jon Cox. During the 2016 General Session, Owens served on the House Business and Labor Committee, House Natural Resources, Agriculture, and Environment Committee, and Higher Education Appropriations Subcommittee. During the interim, he served on the Business and Labor Interim Committee and the Transportation Interim Committee.

In 2020, he announced he would instead run for the Utah State Senate, winning the November election with 90.2% of the vote, against Independent American Party of Utah candidate Warren Rogers. In 2021, he was denounced for ‘inappropriate and offensive’ remarks regarding black people during a Utah senate hearing.

In 2016, Owens sponsored several legislations including HB0139 Transparency Advisory Board Modifications, HB0226 Early Intervention Amendments, HB0447 Student Residence Amendments, and HB0448 Airport Fee Amendments. In the same year, Owens floor sponsored SB 144 Dead Domestic Animal Disposal Amendments.