---
type: Person
title: "Rusty Black"
description: "MO Senate District 12 — MO State Senate District 12"
role: "MO Senate District 12"
party: "R"
level: "state"
branch: "legislative"
state: "MO"
district: "MO State Senate District 12"
represents: "us/states/mo/districts/senate/12"
tenure:
  start: "2023-01-04"
  current: true
election:
  term_length: 2
  term_limit: "varies"
ids:
  person: "38f4a875-59ae-49ef-a945-bd2ff914d0ce"
  office: "4f69b2cb-bf01-4754-bc11-6397854e6665"
  tenure: "f35fc56d-fa1a-476a-8188-ea4613e7cd39"
  jurisdiction: "9c8c3d4d-eb13-4534-a5a9-64a3f34c234d"
sources:
  - field: tenure
    source: "OpenStates YAML via GitHub 2026-06-20"
  - field: jurisdiction
    source: "SLDU (Census 2025)"
confidence: official
tags: [officeholder, state, legislative, mo]
timestamp: "2026-07-04"
---

# Rusty Black

Current MO Senate District 12 (MO State Senate District 12).

Represents [MO State Senate District 12](/us/states/mo/districts/senate/12.md).

## Sources

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

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