State Senator, 15th District · Indiana 2026 General Election

Julie McGill

Democratic

Home care business owner · Fort Wayne

The gist

Pledges stronger academic standards and better teacher pay.
Pledges stronger ethics laws and independent oversight.
Supports ending corporate price-gouging on everyday essentials.
Supports expanding access to affordable solar energy.
Supports backing police and expanding treatment courts.
Supports Medicaid and the Healthy Indiana Plan, managed responsibly.
Supports keeping government out of private medical decisions.

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Pledges stronger academic standards and better teacher pay.
On the Issues | McGill for Indiana
Campaign website · McGill For A Better Indiana · mcgillforindiana.com
“I will fight for stronger academic standards, better teacher pay, transparent funding, and a level playing field for every school receiving public dollars.”
Pledges stronger ethics laws and independent oversight.
On the Issues | McGill for Indiana
Campaign website · McGill For A Better Indiana · mcgillforindiana.com
“I will fight for stronger ethics laws, transparent spending, independent oversight, honest lawmaking”
Supports ending corporate price-gouging on everyday essentials.
On the Issues | McGill for Indiana
Campaign website · McGill For A Better Indiana · mcgillforindiana.com
“put an end to corporate price-gouging on everyday essentials”
Supports expanding access to affordable solar energy.
On the Issues | McGill for Indiana
Campaign website · McGill For A Better Indiana · mcgillforindiana.com
“expanding access to affordable solar energy, protecting consumers, and ensuring new development pays its fair share”
Supports backing police and expanding treatment courts.
On the Issues | McGill for Indiana
Campaign website · McGill For A Better Indiana · mcgillforindiana.com
“fully supporting our law enforcement officers, expanding treatment courts for addiction-related crimes”
Supports Medicaid and the Healthy Indiana Plan, managed responsibly.
On the Issues | McGill for Indiana
Campaign website · McGill For A Better Indiana · mcgillforindiana.com
“Programs like Medicaid and the Healthy Indiana Plan return billions of federal tax dollars to our state … When managed responsibly, these investments simultaneously improve health outcomes, protect taxpayers, and strengthen local economies.”
Supports keeping government out of private medical decisions.
On the Issues | McGill for Indiana
Campaign website · McGill For A Better Indiana · mcgillforindiana.com
“stay out of private medical and family decisions”

Liz Brown

RepublicanIncumbent

State senator; mediator · Fort Wayne

The gist

Supports Indiana's near-total abortion ban.
Supported mid-decade congressional redistricting.
Sponsored the 2026 law on local police enforcing immigration law.In office
Sponsored a bill defining sex across Indiana law.In office
Sponsored the 2026 law requiring defendants hear victim statements.In office
Sponsored Indiana's 2025 parental rights law.In office
Sponsored limits on zoning overlays for commercial solar projects.In office

In office = from the candidate's own official statements or legislation as an officeholder, not their campaign.

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Supports Indiana's near-total abortion ban.
Liz Brown | Indiana Senate District 15
Campaign website · Friends of Liz Brown · lizbrown.us
“is credited with Indiana's passage of the near-total 2022 abortion ban”
Supported mid-decade congressional redistricting.
Liz Brown | Indiana Senate District 15
Campaign website · Friends of Liz Brown · lizbrown.us
“Liz led the charge in support of redistricting”
Sponsored the 2026 law on local police enforcing immigration law.
Senate Bill 76: Immigration matters (2026 session), introduced version
Government record · Indiana General Assembly · iga.in.gov
“Clarifies that the enforcement of federal immigration laws may be carried out by federal, state, or local law enforcement.”
Senate Bill 76: Immigration matters (2026 session): bill page
Government record · Indiana General Assembly · iga.in.gov
Sponsored a bill defining sex across Indiana law.
Senate Bill 182: Gender issues (2026 session), introduced version
Government record · Indiana General Assembly · iga.in.gov
“assign an offender, including a delinquent offender, to a facility or program that is based on the offender's biological sex at birth”
Sponsored the 2026 law requiring defendants hear victim statements.
Senate Bill 9: Victim impact statements (2026 session), introduced version
Government record · Indiana General Assembly · iga.in.gov
“Requires a defendant to be present in the courtroom while a victim makes a statement concerning the crime and the sentence”
Senate Bill 9: Victim impact statements (2026 session): bill page
Government record · Indiana General Assembly · iga.in.gov
Sponsored Indiana's 2025 parental rights law.
Senate Bill 143: Parental rights (2025 session), introduced version
Government record · Indiana General Assembly · iga.in.gov
“a governmental entity may not substantially burden certain parental rights unless the burden is in furtherance of a compelling governmental interest”
Senate Bill 143: Parental rights (2025 session): bill page
Government record · Indiana General Assembly · iga.in.gov
Sponsored limits on zoning overlays for commercial solar projects.
Senate Bill 54: Zoning overlay districts for solar projects (2026 session), introduced version
Government record · Indiana General Assembly · iga.in.gov
“a permit authority may not establish in a unit a zoning overlay district in which one or more commercial solar energy projects”