State Senator Spencer Deery​ was elected to the Indiana State Senate in 2022 in his first bid for elected office. A Republican, he represents Senate District 23, which includes Fountain, Parke, Vermillion, and Warren counties, as well as portions of Montgomery and Tippecanoe counties.

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The son of a school principal and a special education teacher, Deery was raised in a rural community on the Hoosier values of integrity, faith, and common sense. He is an Eagle Scout, a husband to Julia, and a father raising three children the same way he was raised.

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Before serving in the Senate, Spencer helped freeze tuition at Purdue University as Deputy Chief of Staff to Mitch Daniels. He's been to Washington where he worked in the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs — and he chose Indiana.

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Deery earned a bachelor’s degree in communications, with minors in business and political science, as well as a master’s degree from the Trachtenberg School of Public Policy and Public Administration at The George Washington University, where he graduated at the top of his class.

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He currently serves on five committees: Education & Career Development, Commerce & Technology, Criminal Law & Corrections, Utilities, and Public Health. He also represents Indiana on the Midwest Higher Education Compact executive committee, working with other states to expand access and reduce the cost of higher education.

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When Spencer is not in the Senate he works as a special assistant for Purdue University Global and Purdue President Emeritus Mitch Daniels. Julia is the director of a large preschool in West Lafayette and leads a women’s organization at the family’s church. They met in college and have been married for nearly two decades.

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Deery speaks fluent Spanish and enjoys coaching his children in sports, serving in the family's church, and competing in long-distance running obstacle course races.