Bradley Jay Little (born February 15, 1954) is an American politician serving as the 33rd governor of Idaho since January 2019.

Little was appointed as an Idaho state senator by governor Dirk Kempthorne in 2001, a position he held for just under eight years.

After Otter declined to run for a fourth term, Little ran for governor in the 2018 gubernatorial election and defeated Democratic nominee Paulette Jordan.

[2] He was reelected in 2022 with 60.5% of the vote, defeating Democratic nominee Stephen Heidt and Independent candidate Ammon Bundy.

Little has had an extensive dual career tending to his family's ranching interests (his grandfather was the "Idaho Sheep King")[4] and in public service.

During the 1981 and 1985 legislative sessions, Little represented his father, David Little, in the Senate on a temporary appointment due to illness, during which time he served on the Finance and Resources Committees.

[9] He continues to work as the head of Little Enterprises, Inc. (a diversified farming and cattle operation), and is a member of the board of directors of Performance Design Inc., a small Boise-based manufacturing company.

The bill protects companies from abusive or "bad faith assertions of patent infringement" to collect an extortionate licensing fee.

[51] Little won the Idaho Republican Party primary, beating both U.S. Representative Raúl Labrador and businessman Tommy Ahlquist with 37.3% of the vote.

[52] In the general election in November, he defeated state Representative Paulette Jordan, the Idaho Democratic Party nominee,[53] by over 130,000 votes.

[64] That year, he also signed legislation that would permit killing up to 90% of the state's estimated 1,500 wolves to the minimum level of 150 as set by Idaho's wolf conservation and management plan; the legislation was backed by the ranching sector of Idaho, but strongly opposed by environmental advocates.

[65] In late April 2021, Little signed House Bill 366, effectively prohibiting abortions after about six weeks of pregnancy, making exceptions for victims of rape, incest, and for medical emergencies.

"[66][67] In March 2022, Little signed Senate Bill 1309 modeled after the Texas Heartbeat Act that prohibited abortions after about six weeks of pregnancy.

In May 2021, he signed a bill that would thwart nearly a half-dozen of executive orders from President Joe Biden combating gun control.

[74] In April 2023, Little signed House Bill 71 into law, banning anyone under the age of 18 from receiving puberty blockers, hormone therapy, or gender-affirming surgery beginning in 2024.

[80] In March 2023, Little, a supporter of capital punishment, signed House Bill 186, which adds a firing squad as an alternative form of execution when lethal injection is not available.