Sheryl Nuxoll

Idaho Senate Nuxoll was a vice chair of the Senate Health & Welfare Committee and a member of the Finance Committee and Resources & Environment Committee. After the mailing came to public attention, Nuxoll reimbursed the state for the cost.

In November 2012, after Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney lost the presidential election to Barack Obama, Nuxoll called upon states that supported Romney "to refuse to participate in the Electoral College" in a bid to reverse the election result and have Romney become president. The notion, which originated in a blog post by Tea Party Nation founder Judson Phillips, was viewed as highly unlikely. Constitutional scholar David Adler of Boise State University said that the idea was "really a strange and bizarre fantasy" and was based on a misreading of the Twelfth Amendment. The Anti-Defamation League criticized Nuxoll's remarks. Nuxoll defended her remarks, asserting that the legislation was "replacing capitalism with socialism".

In March 2015, Nuxoll became embroiled in controversy after she stated that Hinduism was "a false faith with false gods" and, along with fellow state senators Steve Vick and Lori Den Hartog, refused to attend a session of the legislature that commenced with a Hindu invocation prayer given by Hindu cleric Rajan Zed. Despite calls for her to apologize from a wide variety of religious leaders, Nuxoll stood by her remarks.

In 2015, Nuxoll led an effort to kill child support legislation to amend Idaho law to comply with federal law and the Hague Convention on International Recovery of Child Support and Family Maintenance. Nuxoll claimed, inaccurately, that the measure would force Idaho to recognize Sharia law. The push against the legislation by Nuxoll and others sharply divided Republican state legislators in Idaho. State Representative Luke Malek of Coeur d'Alene, for example, was critical of Nuxoll and her allies, calling their maneuvers "heavy-handed opportunistic theatrics at the expense of single-parents and children". The initial defeat of the legislation forced Governor Butch Otter to call a special session of the legislature to pass the bill; during the special session, Nuxoll was one of only two senators to vote against the legislation.

In 2016, Nuxoll sponsored SB 1342, a bill to establish the Christian Bible as an official state text in schools. Nuxoll's bill stated that the Bible was a good reference book for students learning "astronomy, biology, geology" and other subjects. The bill was strongly criticized by the ACLU of Idaho. The governor also stated that Nuxoll's bill could lead to "costly litigation for Idaho public schools". In 2016, Nuxoll sponsored different anti-abortion legislation to require abortion providers to give patients a list of places where they can receive a free ultrasound; these locations are controversial anti-abortion crisis pregnancy centers, which are not required to have medically trained staff and give inaccurate information about the health effects of abortions. The legislation passed the Senate on a 28-7 party-line vote and was signed into law by Governor Butch Otter.

Personal life Nuxoll is married to her husband Felix and has six children.