---
type: Person
title: "Taffy Howard"
description: "SD Senate District 34 — SD State Senate District 34"
role: "SD Senate District 34"
party: "R"
level: "state"
branch: "legislative"
state: "SD"
district: "SD State Senate District 34"
represents: "us/states/sd/districts/senate/34"
tenure:
  start: "2025-01-14"
  current: true
election:
  term_length: 2
  term_limit: "varies"
ids:
  person: "67e5e55c-42c4-4afc-a102-458aa2418b31"
  office: "3df25cf7-c2fd-435c-bbd3-7a84b554bee3"
  tenure: "d21a12f7-fdbf-46c1-91d6-a4b21e0c9dbf"
  jurisdiction: "49ee3e95-2488-4a0c-80dc-483d3650a192"
sources:
  - field: tenure
    source: "OpenStates YAML via GitHub 2026-06-20"
  - field: jurisdiction
    source: "SLDU (Census 2025)"
confidence: official
tags: [officeholder, state, legislative, sd]
timestamp: "2026-07-04"
---

# Taffy Howard

Current SD Senate District 34 (SD State Senate District 34).

Represents [SD State Senate District 34](/us/states/sd/districts/senate/34.md).

## Sources

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

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