---
type: Person
title: "Melissa Ratcliff"
description: "WI Senate District 16 — WI State Senate District 16"
role: "WI Senate District 16"
party: "D"
level: "state"
branch: "legislative"
state: "WI"
district: "WI State Senate District 16"
represents: "us/states/wi/districts/senate/16"
tenure:
  start: "2025-01-06"
  current: true
election:
  term_length: 2
  term_limit: "varies"
ids:
  person: "e99a2e00-6e27-426c-bf3a-165997e646e3"
  office: "cb8b262d-5fc7-4a91-9d0b-90796c37a1a9"
  tenure: "f3a0b623-e859-4bce-85eb-8e61cbefda32"
  jurisdiction: "2b855b61-62f5-4a97-8ac5-b3a3f75ad077"
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"
---

# Melissa Ratcliff

Current WI Senate District 16 (WI State Senate District 16).

Represents [WI State Senate District 16](/us/states/wi/districts/senate/16.md).

## Sources

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

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