Scott Jensen (Minnesota politician)

Jensen was born on November 19, 1954, and graduated valedictorian from Sleepy Eye High School in 1973. He attended Luther Northwestern Theological Seminary from 1977 to 1978 and the University of Minnesota, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts in physiology in 1978 and a Doctor of Medicine in 1981. He was a Bush Fellow of leadership and policy studies at the University of Minnesota in 1999.[1]

Jensen was a member of the Waconia School Board from 1993 to 2002 and was its chair from 1995 to 1996 and in 1999.[2] He was also a member of the Citizens Alliance Bank board, of which he was the audit committee chair.[3] Jensen is the founder and president of Catalyst Medical Clinic in Watertown where he is a family physician. He is also a clinical associate professor at the University of Minnesota Medical School in the Family Practices department.[2]

Jensen was elected to the Minnesota Senate in 2016.[4]

In July 2019, Jensen announced he wouldn't seek reelection in 2020.[4]

In February 2020, Jensen put forward a bill to create a new commission to probe drug price increases.[5]

In a July 5, 2020 video that Jensen posted to Facebook, Jensen claimed that he was under investigation by Minnesota Board of Medical Practice in relation to a April 7th television interview. In that interview, he claimed he was told to falsify death certificates with COVID-19 as the cause of death, and for comparing COVID-19 to influenza.[6][7]

Jensen and his wife, Mary, have three children and reside in Chaska.[1]

• Scott Jensen at Minnesota Legislators Past & Present
• Official Senate website
• Official campaign website