Soren Simonsen

Soren Simonsen (born January 27, 1968) is an American architect and urban planner, who is a former council member for District 7 on the Salt Lake City Council, and was the Democratic nominee for Utah's 3rd Congressional District in 2012.

Simonsen was born in Salt Lake City, Utah. His family relocated San Antonio, and later to Austin, Texas, when he was young.

Simonsen attended A.S. Johnston High School in Austin, where he graduated with high honors. He earned a Bachelor of Architecture degree, with an emphasis on urban design and city planning, from the University of Texas at Austin. He completed a Master of Arts in Community Leadership degree at Westminster College in Salt Lake City.

Simonsen is married to Heather Simonsen, an author and former television news reporter. They live in the Sugar House area of Salt Lake City. Simonsen is a lifelong member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, for which he served a two-year mission in the Norway Oslo Mission from 1987 to 1989.

Soren Simonsen was the Democratic nominee for the United States House of Representatives in Utah's 3rd District in the 2012 general election. He filed his candidacy on March 15, 2012, and won the Democratic nomination outright, with 77% of delegate votes, at the Utah Democratic Convention in Salt Lake City, on April 21, 2012.

Simonsen lost the race—with just shy of 56,000 votes or about 24% of ballots cast—to two-term Republican incumbent, Jason Chaffetz, in a Republican dominated voting district.

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