Heather Dopp, a Bountiful Democrat, is running for Utah State Board of Education District 4 in the Nov. 3 general election. She faces Republican LeAnn Wood.

District 4 covers Davis County, including Bountiful, Farmington and North Salt Lake, according to the Standard-Examiner.

Dopp participated in the Democratic convention for the District 4 seat on April 25, according to Utah's candidate filing records. No candidate advanced from that convention. She is now certified for the general election ballot, according to BallotReady.

Candidate information

  • Party: Democratic
  • Residence: Bountiful, Utah
  • Education: Associate degree, LDS Business College; bachelor of science in human development and family studies, University of Utah (2014); master's degree in marriage and family therapy (in progress), Northcentral University (all claimed by the candidate)

Experience and public service

Dopp said she is a licensed marriage and family therapist at The EFT Clinic in Bountiful. She said she began pursuing her degree in marriage and family therapy in 2021.

She said she began maternal mental health advocacy work in 2019 after experiencing severe anxiety, depression and suicidal ideation during her second pregnancy in 2017. She said she has testified in Utah Legislative Committee hearings and shared her story with Utah lawmakers in Washington, D.C.

Dopp served as a nonprofit state policy fellow in the 2024–2025 cohort at the Policy Center for Maternal Mental Health.

She also listed several volunteer leadership roles in maternal mental health organizations. Those include advocacy chair and policy committee chair at Postpartum Support International–Utah, co-chair of the Utah Maternal Mental Health Policy Committee, head of the Maternal Mental Health Caucus at Mom Congress and ambassador at 20/20 Mom. Mom Congress is a policy advocacy organization affiliated with 20/20 Mom, according to Dopp.

Dopp said she has a late dyscalculia diagnosis from college and an ADHD diagnosis nearly ten years later. She said she specializes in ADHD and neurodivergence management and coping strategies in her therapy practice.

Candidate information in this profile is drawn from Dopp's responses on her professional website and Psychology Today listing, Utah candidate filing records and BallotReady election data. Statements attributed to the candidate reflect her own claims and have not been independently verified. The general election is Nov. 3.