Natalie Fleming

Fleming was born in Portland, Oregon, and describes herself as a rancher's daughter from Idaho's high desert.[2] She graduated from Moscow High School, and her campaign website says she attended junior high and high school in Moscow.[2][3] Her website says she went to work in technology straight out of high school, first at WordPerfect and then at Novell.[3] By her own account, she returned to Idaho in 2002 as a single mother and worked in software while caring for family members with special needs; her website says she raised her four children in the Treasure Valley.[2][3]

Fleming returned to school during COVID and earned a bachelor's degree from Boise State University in 2024.[2] She describes her degrees as in Information Technology Management and Supply Chain Management, with a minor in Cybersecurity.[2][3] Ballotpedia lists her career experience as working as an information technology professional.[2]

Fleming has written two books, one on defying hate propaganda and one on restoring the water cycle.[2] During the campaign, she focused on limits on surveillance and AI, housing affordability and restoring the water cycle.[2] She received 7.0% of the vote to Jim Risch's 56.5%, according to unofficial results reported by NBC News.[1]