---
type: Person
title: "Howard Marklein"
description: "WI Senate District 17 — WI State Senate District 17"
role: "WI Senate District 17"
party: "R"
level: "state"
branch: "legislative"
state: "WI"
district: "WI State Senate District 17"
represents: "us/states/wi/districts/senate/17"
tenure:
  start: "2015-01-03"
  current: true
election:
  term_length: 2
  term_limit: "varies"
ids:
  person: "01d9cd0e-4bb4-4b66-883c-13ae10b74032"
  office: "d0253820-fe16-49fa-9e79-b5c76b5f7d1d"
  tenure: "23488244-c9e1-476e-b5d8-c6d0d7752b5e"
  jurisdiction: "5148a15c-57ad-49f7-9126-5f8248151d94"
sources:
  - field: tenure
    source: "OpenStates YAML via GitHub 2026-06-20"
  - field: jurisdiction
    source: "SLDU (Census 2025)"
confidence: official
tags: [officeholder, state, legislative, wi]
timestamp: "2026-07-04"
---

# Howard Marklein

Current WI Senate District 17 (WI State Senate District 17).

Represents [WI State Senate District 17](/us/states/wi/districts/senate/17.md).

## Sources

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

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