Misty Kathrine Snow (born July 19, 1985)[1] is an American political candidate who was one of the first openly transgender people in the United States to have been nominated by a major political party for a federal office.[2][3] Snow was the Democratic nominee in the 2016 United States Senate election in Utah. This also made her the first transgender person to become a nominee for the United States Senate as well as the first LGBT person to be a major-party nominee for statewide office in Utah.[4][5]