---
type: Person
title: "Cathy Giessel"
description: "AK Senate District E — AK State Senate District E"
role: "AK Senate District E"
party: "R"
level: "state"
branch: "legislative"
state: "AK"
district: "AK State Senate District E"
represents: "us/states/ak/districts/senate/e"
tenure:
  start: "2023-01-17"
  current: true
election:
  term_length: 2
  term_limit: "varies"
ids:
  person: "55f3ee1f-4dfe-442c-87a9-d903b8906136"
  office: "1676d8ee-2b69-4186-99ce-16e8251ff83a"
  tenure: "b4cbe64c-7bc4-4bf6-a3fd-08f8eb478544"
  jurisdiction: "f9889953-d278-4e09-8606-9fdf442abb0a"
sources:
  - field: tenure
    source: "OpenStates YAML via GitHub 2026-06-20"
  - field: jurisdiction
    source: "SLDU (Census 2025)"
confidence: official
tags: [officeholder, state, legislative, ak]
timestamp: "2026-07-04"
---

# Cathy Giessel

Current AK Senate District E (AK State Senate District E).

Represents [AK State Senate District E](/us/states/ak/districts/senate/e.md).

## Sources

- tenure: OpenStates YAML via GitHub 2026-06-20
- jurisdiction: SLDU (Census 2025)

Generated from the Atlas officeholders v3 export (2026-07-04).