Jeff Brand

Jeff Brand is an American politician who served in the Minnesota House of Representatives from 2023 to 2025 and from 2019 to 2021. A member of the Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party (DFL), Brand represented District 18A in south-central Minnesota, which includes the cities of St. Peter and North Mankato, Nicollet County, and parts of Blue Earth and Le Sueur Counties.

Early life, education, and career Brand was raised on a dairy farm in Howard Lake, Minnesota. He graduated from the Parks Law Enforcement Academy with a certificate, from Vermilion Community College, and from Minnesota State University, Mankato, with a Bachelor of Science in anthropology.

Minnesota House of Representatives Brand was elected to the Minnesota House of Representatives in 2018. He first ran after three-term DFL incumbent Clark Johnson announced he would not seek reelection. In 2020, Brand lost reelection to Republican Susan Akland. He ran against Akland again in 2022 and won.

Brand was the vice chair of the Workforce Development Finance and Policy Committee in the 2023-24 session and sat on the Environment and Natural Resources Finance and Policy, Taxes, and Transportation Finance and Policy Committees. From 2019 to 2020, Brand served as vice chair of the Agriculture and Food Finance and Policy Committee. He introduced legislation to give homeowners incentives to upgrade water softeners and reduce chloride in water. He supported legislation to boost funding for research on alternative crops such as kernza, and wrote a bill increasing funding for grain bin safety and farmer education.

Brand was the lead author of legislation that would eliminate non-essential PFAS chemicals from products for children, cookware, ski wax, carpet, cosmetics and more. The legislation was supported by environmental groups and opposed by chemical corporation lobbyists. He also authored legislation that would allow Minnesotans exposed to harmful chemicals to sue companies for the cost of monitoring their health.

Electoral history

Personal life Brand and his wife, Genevieve, have two children. He resides in St. Peter, Minnesota.