State Rep. Rachel Williams announced March 18 that she is running for Wyoming Secretary of State. She opened her campaign with a message aimed squarely at core conservative priorities: election integrity, limited government, pro-business policy, and protecting Wyoming from foreign influence.
Williams, who represents House District 50 and serves as chairman of the Wyoming Freedom Caucus, is positioning herself as a candidate who wants to carry her legislative brand into one of the state’s most visible constitutional offices. In her announcement, she described the Secretary of State as Wyoming’s chief election officer and said the job is central to keeping elections “secure, fair, and transparent.”
“I plan to continue the work I started in the Wyoming House to protect the integrity of our elections and build lasting trust with Wyoming voters,” Williams said in the release.
The campaign announcement also underscores that the office is not just about elections. Williams pointed to the Secretary of State’s role in overseeing business registrations, including corporations, LLCs, partnerships, and securities. She said she wants to keep Wyoming “open for business” by reducing red tape, streamlining processes, and preserving the state’s low-tax climate. That combination, election oversight paired with business regulation, gives the office a broader reach than many voters may realize, and Williams’s announcement makes clear she intends to run on both fronts.
A former law enforcement officer, Williams was first elected to the House in 2020. Her campaign highlighted her current role as chair of the House Labor, Health & Social Services Committee and emphasized her identity as a wife, mother of two, and community volunteer in the Cody area near Yellowstone.
The release also leans heavily into conservative credentials. Williams said she earned a 100 percent rating from Club for Growth and a 93 percent lifetime rating from the American Conservative Union. Her campaign additionally describes her as a leading pro-life voice, a defender of Second Amendment rights, and one of the most conservative members of the Wyoming House. Williams further said she wants to protect Wyoming’s land, natural resources, and critical infrastructure from foreign adversaries, “particularly China,” adding another issue that has become increasingly prominent in Wyoming Republican politics.
The three-term Park County Republican was first elected to the Wyoming House of Representatives in 2020 during COVID. She was part of an initial wave of conservative legislators gaining momentum in Wyoming’s lower legislative chamber. So far, that wave has culminated in conservatives being solidly in control of the House of Representatives.
When elected, Williams, who at the time worked for a pro-life pregnancy center in Cody, quickly emerged as one of the legislature’s strongest advocates for the unborn. Her first bill, known as the “Trigger Bill,” would have basically outlawed abortion in Wyoming if the U.S. Supreme Court ruling Roe v. Wade was overturned.
In an early edition of his podcast, Cowboy State Politics, conservative broadcaster David Iverson published a moving defense of children Williams delivered on the House Floor:
Williams’ campaign issued a press release announcing her candidacy. That release can be viewed here: Williams for Wyoming Secretary of State.
Her campaign directs voters to Williams4Wyoming.com for more information.