James Richard "Jamie" Wall Jr. (born September 1971) is an American business consultant andDemocratic politician fromGreen Bay, Wisconsin. He is a member of theWisconsin Senate, representingWisconsin's 30th Senate district since2025. Earlier in his career, Wall served as administrator of the Division of Economic Development in theWisconsin Department of Commerce duringJim Doyle's first term as governor. He also ran unsuccessfully forU.S. House of Representatives in 2006 and 2012.

Jamie Wall was born inGreen Bay, Wisconsin, and was raised on his family's dairy farm in the nearby rural town ofHolland. Wall graduated fromWrightstown High School in 1989, and was valedictorian of his class.^[1] He was the first member of his family to attend college, studying political science and history at theUniversity of Wisconsin–Madison. He became involved in student government there and was co-president during his senior year. He was also active in campaigning on campus for Democratic Party presidential candidateBill Clinton in the1992 United States presidential election.

He earned his bachelor's degree in 1993, then took a six-week internship in theOffice of the Vice President of the United States. He had to quit early, however, after his father became seriously ill. After his father's death in September 1993, Wall returned to politics, taking a job onCharles Chvala's1994 campaign forgovernor of Wisconsin.^[2] Shortly after Chvala's defeat, Wall was announced as one of 32Rhodes Scholarship recipients for 1995 and spent the next two years studying atOxford University in England.^[3]

After completing his master's degree at Oxford, Wall worked in New York for management consulting firmMcKinsey & Company, then joined a technology startup inSilicon Valley.^[4] He returned to Wisconsin in 2002 and partnered with a friend in establishing their own company in Green Bay, providing consulting and strategic planning services to businesses.

Wall remained active in politics while conducting his consulting business. In 2002, he was involved inJim Doyle's successful campaign for governor and was then part of Doyle's transition staff. Shortly after Doyle's inauguration, Wall was appointed to lead the Division of Economic Development in theWisconsin Department of Commerce.^[5]

After traveling extensively around the state promoting economic development projects, Wall made his first bid for public office in 2005, when he announced his campaign forU.S. House of Representatives. He sought the Democratic nomination inWisconsin's 8th congressional district following the announcement that incumbentMark Green would not run for re-election in2006.^[4] Wall had a strong start, raising $140,000 in his first quarter of fundraising and earning the endorsement ofDave Obey, the dean of the Wisconsin congressional delegation. Ultimately two other Democrats jumped into the race, former Brown County executiveNancy Nusbaum and physicianSteve Kagan. Kagan prevailed in the primary, taking 47% of the vote.^[6]

Kagen served two terms until he was defeated in the 2010 election by RepublicanReid Ribble. A year later, in the fall of 2011, Wall announced he would make another bid for Congress in the2012 election, challenging Ribble in the 8th congressional district.^[7] This time Wall faced no opposition in the Democratic primary. In the general election, however, Ribble won by a comfortable margin, taking 56% of the vote.^[8]

For the next decade, Wall did not run for office again. Though, after the election of Democratic governorTony Evers, he sought appointment as C.E.O. of theWisconsin Economic Development Corporation, which had replaced the Department of Commerce.^[9][10] During these years, however, he helped found a regional non-profit economic development corporation called New North, Inc., which operates as a regional partner to the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation for the northeast quarter of Wisconsin.^[11]

Wall returned to electoral politics in 2024, following the passage of a redistricting act undoing the decade-old Republican gerrymander of the Wisconsin Legislature. Wall announced he would run in the new30th Senate district, comprising Green Bay, De Pere, Ashwaubenon, and Allouez. The new 30th Senate district was projected as one of the most competitive in the state, containing significant urban and suburban population. Wall faced no opposition in the Democratic primary. Although three Republican incumbents had been drawn into the new district, none of them ran in the highly competitive seat, withAndré Jacque seeking another office,Eric Wimberger relocating to another district, andRobert Cowles choosing to retire. Instead Wall faced Republican Jim Rafter, who had served as the village president of Allouez for the previous 8 years.^[12] Wall prevailed in the general election, receiving 52.5% of the vote and flipping the district to Democratic control.^[11][13] He took office in January 2025.

Jamie Wall is the only child of Jo Ann (née Gehl) and James R. "Jim" Wall. His father was a veteran of theKorean War, then worked as a corrections officer for 34 years.^[14] His mother was a nurse.^[15]

Their family farm in the town of Holland has been in the Wall family for five generations, since Jamie's great-great-grandfather,Irish American immigrant Richard Wall, settled there in 1855.^[16] Jamie's uncle, Jerome Wall, was chairman of the town of Holland for several years.^[4]

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