Jeffrey 'Jeff' Rodrick Monroe[2] (born September 5, 1956) is an American politician and a Republican member of the South Dakota Senate representing District 24 since January 8, 2013.
Monroe served non-consecutively in the South Dakota Legislature from January 1995 until January 2003 in the South Dakota House of Representatives District 24 seat.
Monroe graduated from the University of Nebraska–Lincoln and Northwestern College of Chiropractic (now Northwestern Health Sciences University) with post graduate work at New York Chiropractic College.
In the 2016 session, Monroe sponsored[17] South Dakota Senate Bill 84[18] that prevents prohibiting public school teachers from presenting "the strengths and weaknesses of scientific information presented...".
[clarification needed] This bill closely follows the strategy of the Wedge strategy authored by the intelligent design think tank the Discovery Institute.