Kimberly Yee has been Arizona treasurer since 2018. She was the first Asian-American woman to serve in the Arizona Legislature, where she was in the House and then the Senate from 2010 to 2018.
A native Arizonan, Yee is 52. She supports oversight of the ESA program and would like it to remain universal. She is moving toward exploring other vendors of the ESA program after asking for a request for information to assess the market and improve ESA operations after poor auditing and misspent funds came to light.
In the Republican debate last month, Yee cited an Arizona Auditor General report, which revealed little oversight of the program for private and home-school families. The Department of Education automatically processed about $654 million in ESA transactions since December 2024.