---
type: Person
title: "Chris Garten"
description: "IN Senate District 45 — IN State Senate District 45"
role: "IN Senate District 45"
party: "R"
level: "state"
branch: "legislative"
state: "IN"
district: "IN State Senate District 45"
represents: "us/states/in/districts/senate/45"
tenure:
  start: "2018-11-07"
  current: true
election:
  term_length: 2
  term_limit: "varies"
ids:
  person: "aa900bf7-eba9-482d-b3fe-bc327de5bf4d"
  office: "260606cb-aac5-4fcc-9e62-2dbd0ff44014"
  tenure: "91d982cf-524b-431f-97a6-c84e6ac26217"
  jurisdiction: "8c4b1e65-7f0b-411b-b490-d605d0d1c13c"
sources:
  - field: tenure
    source: "OpenStates YAML via GitHub 2026-06-20"
  - field: jurisdiction
    source: "SLDU (Census 2025)"
confidence: official
tags: [officeholder, state, legislative, in]
timestamp: "2026-07-04"
---

# Chris Garten

Current IN Senate District 45 (IN State Senate District 45).

Represents [IN State Senate District 45](/us/states/in/districts/senate/45.md).

## Sources

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

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