David Schweikert

David Schweikert was born in Los Angeles, California, on March 3, 1962. He graduated from Saguaro High School in Scottsdale, Arizona, in 1980, earned an A.A. from Scottsdale Community College in 1985, and received a B.S. in 1988 and an M.B.A. in 2005 from Arizona State University. He worked as a business owner, realtor and financial consultant.

Schweikert was a member of the Arizona state house of representatives from 1989 to 1994, a member of the Arizona state board of equalization from 1995 to 2003, and Maricopa County treasurer from 2004 to 2006. He was elected as a Republican to the 112th Congress and has served in the House since January 3, 2011. He was reprimanded by the U.S. House of Representatives on July 31, 2020, for campaign finance violations and reporting errors by authorized campaign committees, misuse of Members' representational allowance for unofficial purposes, and pressuring official staff to perform campaign work. He sits on the Committee on Ways and Means and the Joint Economic Committee; his House biography says he is chairman of the Joint Economic Committee.