Steven Tilley (born June 11, 1971) is a lobbyist and former Speaker of the Missouri House of Representatives.

[2] On December 13, 2010, five weeks after being elected Speaker, Tilley altered his campaign committee in order to run for Lieutenant Governor of Missouri in 2012.

[3] A 1989 graduate of Perryville High School in Perryville, Missouri, Tilley received a Bachelor of Science degree from Southeast Missouri State University in 1994 and received his Doctorate of Optometry from the University of Missouri-St. Louis School of Optometry in 1998.

Among his most visible events was erecting a statue of Rush Limbaugh in the capitol in the Hall of Famous Missourians.

[4] In August 2012, he resigned as speaker of the Missouri House, five months before his term expired, and dropped out of the lieutenant governor race.

Due to heavy rainfall and high water levels on the river, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers was considering a plan to destroy a levee on the Missouri side of the river in hopes of lowering the flood level and preventing severe flood damage to Cairo and other downstream areas.

Destroying the levee would have flooded several hundred thousand acres of Missouri farmland.

[14] Tilley formed the lobbyist firm Strategic Capitol Consulting shortly after his term as Speaker ended.

[20] In 2022, Tilley organized a fundraiser for attorney general Andrew Bailey[21] who withdrew from a lawsuit between both companies and Missouri State Highway Patrol in 2023.