Commencement Speaker
Spring 2025 Commencement
Kyle Hilbert
Speaker of the House, State of Oklahoma
Kyle Hilbert was elected the 45th Speaker of the Oklahoma House of Representatives in January 2025. He is the state representative for Oklahoma House District 29, which contains parts of Creek and Tulsa counties. Kyle, his wife, Alexis, and two young daughters live in Bristow, Oklahoma.
He attended Oklahoma State University, where he earned a bachelor’s degree in agribusiness
and a master’s in business administration. While at OSU, Hilbert served as Student
Government Association president. In Hilbert’s eight-year tenure in the House, he
has authored over 40 bills that have been signed into law. He authored the DRIVE Act,
which brought the state’s transportation funding into the 21st century, while simultaneously
leading the modernization of Oklahoma’s ad valorem tax reimbursement system and the
creation of the Redbud School Funding Act, which directs a portion of revenue generated
from marijuana taxes to school districts with below-average local property taxes for
infrastructure needs.
Before he was elected Speaker, he served three sessions as the speaker pro tempore
of the Oklahoma House of Representatives. He spent three years as vice chair of the
Appropriations and Budget Committee, where he helped get Oklahoma’s budget in better
shape than it has ever been and made the budget negotiation process more transparent
than ever.
Hilbert, 30, is the youngest House speaker in Oklahoma state history and only the
second Republican speaker 30 years old or younger in any state since 1873.