Kyrsten Sinema

Kyrsten Lea Sinema (; born July 12, 1976) is the senior United States Senator from Arizona since January 3, 2019. She was the U.S. Representative for . She was first elected in 2012. 
Sinema is an independent. She served in both chambers of the State Legislature, being elected to the Arizona House of Representatives in 2004 and the Arizona Senate in 2010.
Sinema has worked for the adoption of the DREAM Act, pro-immigration reforms and supports same-sex marriage. She was the first openly bisexual person elected to the U.S. Congress.
Sinema ran in the United States Senate election in Arizona in 2018 to replace Senator Jeff Flake, who retired from the seat. She won the Democratic nomination in August 2018 and defeated Republican Martha McSally.
Sinema is the first female senator elected in Arizona and the second openly LGBT person ever to serve in the Senate, after Tammy Baldwin.
On December 9, 2022, Sinema left the Democratic Party and registered as an independent.