Donald Betzold (born August 27, 1950) is a Minnesota politician and a former member of the Minnesota Senate who represented District 51, which includes portions of Anoka, Hennepin and Ramsey counties in the northern Twin Cities metropolitan area.
[1] He was unseated by Republican Pam Wolf in the 2010 general election.
[3] His special legislative concerns included human services, environmental issues, local government operations, small business, civil law, mental health, military issues, and data practices.
He is also a retired military veteran, having served in the U.S. Army as a Signal Corps officer for four years in the 1970s, and in the Army Reserves from 1976 to 2002 in the Judge Advocate General's Corps, from which he retired as a colonel.
From 2006 to 2008 he served on the Minnesota Statehood Sesquicentennial Commission, to which he was appointed by Governor Tim Pawlenty.