Todd Achilles

Achilles says he grew up on a family farm, and the Spokesman-Review reports he was born in Oregon.[2][3] He earned a B.A. in economics and international relations from Claremont McKenna College, an M.B.A. and a master's in international studies from the University of Washington, and an M.P.A. from the University of California, Berkeley.[2] He served in the U.S. Army from 1992 to 1995, joining through an ROTC program and serving as a tank commander and armor officer.[2][3]

Achilles spent more than 20 years in senior roles at technology companies, by his own account at T-Mobile, Hewlett-Packard and several startups.[2][3] Ballotpedia lists his experience as including executive director of product management at T-Mobile, president at HTC, vice president and general manager at HP, and CEO of Evoca.[2] He bought a vacation home near Ketchum about two decades ago and moved his family full-time to Boise roughly ten years later, the Spokesman-Review reported; he lives in Boise with his family, according to his Ballotpedia survey.[2][3] He founded Veterans for Idaho Voters and has worked as a professor.[2]

Achilles was a registered Republican until he changed his party affiliation to qualify for appointment, and in February 2024 Gov. Brad Little appointed him to the Idaho House of Representatives (District 16B) as a Democrat, to the seat vacated by Rep. Colin Nash.[2][3] He won the seat in November 2024, defeating Jackie Davidson with 59.8% of the vote, and served on the Agricultural Affairs, Commerce and Human Resources, Ways and Means and State Affairs committees.[2] He resigned from the House at the end of June 2025 and left the Democratic Party to challenge Risch, saying that Risch "just doesn’t represent the state anymore."[2][3] During the campaign, his Ballotpedia survey listed his priorities as stopping corruption in Congress, strengthening the middle class and protecting public lands.[2] He received 33.5% of the vote to Jim Risch's 56.5%, according to unofficial results reported by NBC News.[1]