Candidates for Public Office
Chris Herrod is a candidate for Utah Congressional District 3
Come join our host Senator John D. Johnson as he engages in conversation with Chris Herrod, who is vying for Utah’s 3rd congressional district seat. Chris embodies honesty, hard work, conservatism, and a fervent dedication to freedom. He is a committed leader with a deep sense of faith and preparedness.
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Chris was raised in Provo, Utah, since 1972 where he attended Edgemont Elementary, Farrer Junior High, and Timpview High school. He grew up attending the Provo Freedom Festival for Independence Day, where he met a Soviet MIG pilot who defected from Russia, a family that built a home-made balloon to escape East Germany, and many others who paid a high price for freedom. These experiences, as well as having his father serve in Vietnam, instilled a great love of our country and a determination to protect the freedoms U.S. citizens enjoy.
At the age of sixteen, Chris was awarded a Presidential scholarship to BYU and studied in Vienna, Austria, for six months. There he saw the Iron Curtain for the first time as well as the Berlin Wall which furthered his appreciation for our freedoms. He graduated from BYU in 1990 with a double major in International Relations and Family Living, and in 1992 he earned a Master’s Degree in Organizational Behavior from the Marriott School of Management.
After graduation, Chris accepted a teaching position at Kharkov National University in the Ukraine. On the plane ride from Moscow to Kharkov, the person sitting next to him, a gentleman from India said, “Ukraine has the prettiest women in all of the former Soviet Union . . . and Kharkov has the prettiest in the Ukraine.” As he stepped off the plane, a young woman assigned by the University was holding a sign with Chris’s name on it. Chris married her four months later. Alia and Chris are now parents of five wonderful children, ages 11 to 24 and live in Provo. One of them is named after Ronald Reagan. Chris jokes that after 7 years at BYU, his Heavenly Father had to do something more direct to help him out. Chris also taught in Kiev, Ukraine, for UVU’s (Utah Valley State College at the time) joint business program. He has been an adjunct faculty at UVU, George Wythe University, and other local institutions. He worked in Moscow for a private company as well. More recently, Chris has been working in real estate development and the mortgage industry.
Chris has always been genuinely patriotic and passionate about this country, U.S Constitution, and conservative principles. He has a proven track record in this area and made public service a priority in his life. He served in the Utah House of Representatives from 2007-2012 and was first elected as a republican state delegate at the age of 18. He is a life-long republican and in 2016 he volunteered as Utah State Director for Ted Cruz campaign and was elected a national delegate to the National Republican convention. Chris has always considered his time in politics as being a pursuit that should be limited in nature. As part of that conviction, he believes in self-imposed term limits and has concluded that too much power can be accumulated by one individual, which is not good for the legislative process.
