Biographical Information

The daughter of Larry and Janet Hance, Amy is a fourth generation resident of Wright County who grew up with her three brothers and two sisters on their family farm just outside of Buffalo in Chatham township.

Amy graduated from Buffalo High School and attended Concordia College in Moorhead before enlisting in the US Air Force in 1992. It was during her time in the military that she met and married her husband Christopher and gave birth to their daughter, Rachel.

Amy served her country as a Russian Linguist, graduating from the Defense Language Institute at the Presidio of Monterey, California before being assigned to the National Security Agency in Fort Meade, Maryland just outside of Washington DC. She graduated with honors at all stages of her military training and received the Joint Service Commendation Medal for her contributions to the intelligence community.

Upon receiving her honorable discharge in 1996, Amy returned home to Buffalo and went to work helping to manage and build her family’s utility service company which more than doubled in size over the next few years. Attending classes at night and on the weekends, Amy earned her B.E.S. from St. Cloud State University with a minor in Business Administration, graduating in the spring of 1999.

Active in Republican politics since the late nineties, Amy campaigned for Mark Kennedy and Mary Kiffmeyer when they were first elected to their current offices and has helped to reelect Bruce Anderson several times. She is also a former Secretary and Vice Chair of the Senate District 19 Leadership Committee and has been a delegate to her BPOU, Congressional, and State conventions. Amy is also active in her community. She volunteers as an adult leader for 4-H and currently serves as Vice Chair of the St. Francis Xavier Parish Council as well as Liaison to the Education Advisory Board.

A fiscal and social conservative Amy holds a firm Pro-Life stance and sees transportation, education, and property rights as the primary issues facing voters in Wright County – recognized by the US Census Bureau as one of America’s fastest growing.

Amy’s 2012 committee assignments include Energy, Utilities, and Telecommunications, Higher Education and Transportation.

She encourages and appreciates constituent input, and can be reached at (651)296-5981, by mail at State Capitol Room 322, 75 Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., St. Paul, MN 55155, or via email at sen.amy.koch@senate.mn