{{short description|American politician}} {{Use mdy dates|date=April 2025}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Carri Hicks | image = Hicks%25_2C%25_20Carri%25_20Flags%25_202022.jpg | office1 = Assistant Minority Floor Leader of the Oklahoma Senate | term_start1 = December 2024 | term_end1 = | office2 = Minority Caucus Vice Chair of the Oklahoma Senate | term_start2 = January 2021 | term_end2 = December 11, 2024 | predecessor2 = Allison Ikley-Freeman | state_senate3 = Oklahoma | district3 = 40th | term_start3 = November 14, 2018 | term_end3 = | predecessor3 = Ervin Yen | successor3 = | birth_name = Carri Renee Batchellor | birth_date = | birth_place = | party = Democratic | education = Oklahoma City University<br>Capella University }}
'''Carri Hicks''' is an American politician who has served in the Oklahoma Senate from the 40th district since 2018.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://oksenate.gov/senators/carri-hicks |title=Carri Hicks |publisher=Oksenate.gov |date= |accessdate=2020-09-10}}</ref>
Prior to running for political office, Hicks was an elementary schoolteacher.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Karson |first1=Kendell |title=Oklahoma's teacher candidates surge to November after success in primary elections |url=https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/oklahomas-teacher-candidates-surge-november-success-primary-elections/story?id=56202634 |access-date=3 August 2021 |publisher=ABC News |date=27 June 2018}}</ref> She defeated business consultant Danielle Ezell in the Democratic Party primary held in June 2018,<ref name="2018primaryoklahoman">{{cite news |last1=Felder |first1=Ben |title=Senate primaries include OKC seat eyed by Democrats to flip |url=https://www.oklahoman.com/article/5598984/senate-primaries-include-okc-seat-eyed-by-democrats-to-flip |access-date=3 August 2021 |work=The Oklahoman |date=24 June 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://freepressokc.com/elem-teacher-hicks-prevails-in-sd40-democratic-party-primary/ |title=Elem teacher Hicks prevails in SD40 Democratic Party primary |work=Oklahoma Free Press |date=2018-06-27 |accessdate=2020-09-10}}</ref> then won the general election against Republican candidate Joe Howell and political independent Christopher Hensley.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Denwalt |first1=Dale |title=Senate seat up for grabs in moderate OKC district |url=https://www.oklahoman.com/article/5613599/senate-seat-up-for-grabs-in-moderate-okc-district |access-date=3 August 2021 |work=The Oklahoman |date=1 November 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Sweeney |first1=Catherine |title=Incumbents raise most money in legislative races |url=https://journalrecord.com/2018/11/02/incumbents-raise-most-money-in-legislative-races/ |access-date=3 August 2021 |work=The Journal Record |date=2 November 2018}}</ref> Hicks was sworn into office on November 14, 2018.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Savage |first1=Tres |title=Senate members sworn in, Stitt 'excited' to work with #okleg |url=https://nondoc.com/2018/11/14/senate-members-sworn-stitt-excited/ |access-date=3 August 2021 |work=NonDoc |date=14 November 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Thompson sworn in |url=http://thehenryettan.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=4231:thompson-sworn-in&catid=8&Itemid=367&lang=en |access-date=3 August 2021 |work=The Henryettan |date=14 November 2018}}</ref>
== Career == Hicks accepted money from the Oklahoma Gamefowl Commission, a pro-cockfighting political action committee, in 2022.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Savage |first=Mike Allen and Tres |last2=Savage |first2=Tres |date=2023-02-26 |title=Cockfighting fight turns back time at Oklahoma Capitol |url=https://nondoc.com/2023/02/26/oklahoma-cockfighting-fight-turns-back-time/ |access-date=2023-04-09 |website=NonDoc |language=en-US}}</ref>
In 2024, the Oklahoma Senate Health and Human Services Committee passed Senate Bill 1677, which prohibits the Department of Human Services from requiring adoptive parents to adhere to any sexual orientation or gender identity policy that conflicts with their religious beliefs. Senator Carri Hicks, the only person to vote no on the bill, said, "I think it is very concerning that a child who could be removed from an abusive household potentially because of their identity might be at risk of being placed in a home that is not affirming. Potentially a home that would consider them filth."<ref>{{Cite web |last=Palmer |first=Grant |date=2024-02-29 |title=Oklahoma Senate committee passes bill for parental religious rights in adoption |url=https://okcfox.com/news/local/senate-bill-1677-adoption-foster-care-parents-children-religious-beliefs-morals-freedom-gender-identity-sexual-orientation-julie-daniels-carri-hicks |access-date=2024-03-02 |website=KOKH |language=en}}</ref>
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