Justin Humphrey

He's served in the 56th, 57th, 58th, and 59th Oklahoma Legislatures.

Humphrey was endorsed by Donald Trump ahead of the 2024 United States presidential election.

Justin J. J. Humphrey (born August 17, 1966) is an American politician who has served as a member of the Oklahoma House of Representatives representing the 19th district, which covers parts of the counties of Choctaw, Pushmataha, Atoka, and Bryan.

A member of the Republican Party, he was elected in the 2016 election and sworn in on November 16, 2016.

Humphrey has gained media coverage for several of his proposed bills during his tenure.

He has expressed support for banning abortion except in the cases of the woman's life being in danger, banning transgender athletes from sports, legalizing cockfighting, and for designating all Hispanic street gang members in Oklahoma as terrorists.

Justin Humphrey is the son of Jack Humphrey, a retired superintendent of Lane Public Schools, and Linda Humphrey, a librarian.

Humphrey graduated from East Central University.

He worked for the Oklahoma Department of Corrections for twenty years before retiring.

He has served as vice president of the Fraternal Order of Police Chapter 147.

Humphrey and his wife, Carla, have three children.

He lives in Lane, Oklahoma, in the southeastern part of the state.

Humphrey first ran for the State House in 2016 as the Republican nominee.

District 19 includes Choctaw, Pushmataha, Atoka, and Bryan counties.

He was sworn in November 16, 2016.

On February 6, 2017, Humphrey introduced in the state House an anti-abortion bill (House Bill 1441) to require women to obtain the "written informed consent of the father" before obtaining an abortion, except in cases of rape, incest and the mother's health.

Humphrey's bill would also compel women "to tell her doctor the father's name and prevents the abortion if the father challenges paternity."

The legislation was supported by anti-abortion activists and opposed by abortion-rights groups such as the Center for Reproductive Rights and Planned Parenthood, which called it "extreme" and "irresponsible" as well as unconstitutional.

On February 14, 2017, Humphrey's H.B. 1441 passed the state House Public Health Committee on a 5–2 party-line vote, with Republicans voting yes and Democrats voting no. The committee passed a second anti-abortion bill the same day.

H.B. 1441 was never brought up for a vote in the House.

Humphrey played a major role in SB2, a bill that would ban transgender athletes from participating in women's sports.

In 2021, Humphrey, in an effort to bolster tourism, proposed an official Bigfoot hunting season in Oklahoma, indicating that the Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation would regulate permits and the state would offer a $3 million bounty if such a creature was captured alive and unharmed.

In an interview with The Intercept in February 2017, Humphrey referred to pregnant women as "hosts" for the fetus, prompting outrage and criticism from many quarters.

Fellow State Representative Emily Virgin called the comment "incredibly disrespectful," while The Oklahoman editorial board wrote that "dehumanizing language is the wrong approach on abortion."

Humphrey stood by his use of the term, saying he did not intend to offend anyone.

In 2023, Humphrey introduced HB 2530 to allow county-specific elections to reduce from felonies to misdemeanors the criminal penalties related to cockfighting.

He argued the bill as a criminal justice reform measure.

The bill advanced out of the House Criminal Judiciary Committee on Feb. 22.

In 2022, Jon Echols amended a previous bill of Humphrey's about cockfighting that was later changed to include issues of loitering.

The Oklahoma Gamefowl Commission, "a pro-cockfighting political action committee" donated $1,000 to Humphrey "and he is listed on one report as receiving support from the organization when it spent $178.12 on a checkbook from First United Bank in Durant."

In 2023 Dave Rader co-authored House Bill 1792 with Mike Osburn that would lessen the penalties of and cockfighting dogfighting in Oklahoma, which sparked pushback from animal rights advocates.

Also in 2023, Lonnie Paxton authored Senate Bill 1006 which died in the Senate.

It would have also lessened the penalties for cockfighting in the state, similar to House Bill 2530, authored by Justin Humphrey and Paxton, which also died in the same timeframe.

Humphrey, along with Kevin McDugle, have been outspoken against DAs and the Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board, especially in relation to the Richard Glossip case.

In December 2023, Humphrey accused DAs of possibly illegally collecting money during supervised probation and called for the attorney general to investigate.

The Oklahoma District Attorneys Council's chair, Christopher Boring, rebuked Humphrey's claims.

On January 17, Humphrey introduced House Bill 3084, which proposed on banning furries from schools.

The proposed bill also went on to state that if a furry was determined to be at school, animal control would be called to force the student out.

Later that day, Humphrey retracted the provision of animal control coming to force a "furry" out of school, stating that he put the provision to make "a sarcastic point", instead wanting to send "furries" to mental health counseling.

He won re-election in 2018, 2020, and 2022.