Nikki McDonald
Kansas House of Representatives District 49
Integrity. Hard work. Respect for others.
That's how Nikki was raised. That's how she leads in the legislature.
Nikki was born the oldest of three daughters in the suburbs of Little Rock, AR, where her mom had a career working for the power company and her dad was a Little Rock fireman. She proudly hails from a patriotic, working-class family of veterans. Her grandfather served in WWII, her stepfather in the Arkansas National Guard and her dad in Vietnam and Germany.
She is also a proud product of the public school system, graduating with a Bachelors of Science in Education (Elementary Education) in 1997 and a Masters in the Art of Teaching (Early Childhood) in 1998 from the University of Arkansas. She went on to teach first grade for five years in Rogers, AR, before moving to Olathe and teaching ELL at Fairview Elementary. Her sons Wyatt and Owen attend Olathe public schools, starting at Green Springs and Frontier Trail before graduating from Olathe Northwest.
Nikki and her husband Patrick, a KSU grad with bachelor’s and master’s degrees in chemical engineering, live in the same home where they first set down Olathe roots twenty years ago. They are long-time members of Shawnee Mission Unitarian Universalist Church in Lenexa and in her spare time Nikki enjoys quilting, reading, gardening and knitting.
Nikki has served in the Kansas Legislature since 2023.
She sits on the following committees:
- Health and Human Services
- Education K12 Budget
- Legislative Modernization
- Literacy Advisory Committee
- Education Funding Task Force
She previously served on:
- Financial Institutions and Pensions
- 2024 Special Committee on Centralized Pooled Collateral and PMIB Modernization
