Richard "Rick" Gudex (July 23, 1968 – October 12, 2016) was an American manufacturing production manager and Republican politician from Fond du Lac, Wisconsin.
He was the former Fond du Lac City Council president, and on November 6, 2012, he defeated incumbent Democrat Jessica King from her seat in the Wisconsin State Senate's 18th District by 590 votes.
[1][2] According to his campaign biography,[3] Gudex was born in Eden, Wisconsin, in 1968, graduated from St. Mary's Springs High School, and worked full-time for the family business before becoming a shop worker at the Gehl Company,[4] soon becoming a supervisor.
At the time of his death he had been serving as President pro tempore of the Wisconsin Senate.
Rick will be deeply missed by his Senate colleagues; our thoughts and prayers are with his family at this difficult time.