Candidate, Wyoming State House of Representatives, District 13, 2024

Representative, Wyoming State House of Representatives, District 13, 2023-Present

Member, Joint Committee on Rules and Procedure

Member, Joint Committee on the Judiciary

Member, Select Committee on Legislative Facilities, Technology and Process

Member, Select Water Committee

No caucus information on file.

Attorney

President, Legal Writing Institute, 2010-2012

Faculty, University of Wyoming Law School, 2012

Former Member, Legal Writing Institute Board

Member, Wyoming Promise

Co-Chair, ALWD/Legal Writting Insititute Annual Survey Committee,, 2008-2008

Member, Editorial Board of Legal Writing: The Journal of the Legal Writing Institute, 2004-2008

Priority Issues:

am not an ideologue, tied firmly to a rigid set of beliefs about the world. Rather, I am an ideophile: I love entertaining new ideas and considering them on their own merits.
That said, there are several basic principles that would guide my decision making after I have gathered all of the relevant evidence:

*All people have inherent worth and dignity. Every viewpoint deserves respectful consideration

*I will seek justice and equity for all, with compassion.

*I will respect the democratic process, so long as the majority does not seek to use that process to oppress the minority or deny justice and equity to those in the minority.

*Humans are part of an interdependent web of existence. We need to respect and protect the environment for our future generations.

I am looking forward to the opportunity to serve the citizens of House District 46 and this great state if elected this November.

Publications:

Professor Chestek is one of three co-authors of a new textbook for first-year courses in legal persuasion. All three authors are former Presidents of LWI. The book, Your Client's Story: Persuasive Legal Writing, was published by Aspen in January 2013.