Meet Dr. Mike Katz — Katz for Delaware

A Life of Service to Delaware

Dr. Katz came to Delaware in 1996 when he was recruited from Boston Children's Hospital to A.I. duPont Hospital for Children, following a national search for a pediatric critical-care anesthesiologist. He and his wife Trish have been married for 39 years and raised their three children in Delaware. Delaware has been his home for nearly three decades and the community he has spent his career serving.

Over more than 40 years in medicine, Dr. Katz has cared for tens of thousands of patients, from fragile newborns to critically ill children, earning the trust of families in their most difficult moments. He has also worked in healthcare policy since the early 1990s, serving in leadership roles with the Medical Society of Delaware and the American Medical Association.

“I have sat with families in moments where everything was on the line. That responsibility never leaves you.”
— Dr. Mike Katz

He later served in the Delaware State Senate, where he introduced legislation on term limits, lobby reform, government transparency, and the creation of the Delaware Health Information Network (DHIN). He was elected as a Democrat in a majority-Republican district, and was so conservative that Democrats called him a Republican. He has since re-registered as a Republican.

Dr. Katz is also a business owner and entrepreneur who has spent his career building institutions that serve others: in medicine, in policy, and in community leadership.

Servant leadership has been Dr. Katz’s operating principle since long before this campaign. He has served in leadership roles with the Medical Society of Delaware and the American Medical Association, worked with U.S. Senate leadership on healthcare legislation as far back as 1994, and mentored the next generation of physicians across Delaware’s health systems. He has built genuine relationships in every county in this state, with Democrats, Republicans, and Independents alike, not by running for office but by showing up. He is not running because he needs a title. A servant leader doesn’t stop serving when the campaign ends. He will still be here, still working for Delaware, long after Election Day, win or lose.

Democrat → Independent → Republican

Dr. Katz’s path is not a contradiction. It is the story of a man who has always put people above party, and who has followed the evidence wherever it leads.

2009 — 2013

Delaware State Senate — Democrat

Elected to the Delaware State Senate in a traditionally Republican district as a Democrat, Dr. Katz immediately established a record that defied party lines: term limits, government restructuring, lobby reform, and fiscal accountability. Even Democrats told him he governed like a Republican.

2024

Independent Senate Campaign

Concerned about growing polarization and one-party rule in Delaware, Dr. Katz ran for U.S. Senate as an Independent, placing people above party. He earned nearly 20,000 votes across party lines, demonstrating the cross-party coalition he can build.

2026

Republican Candidate for U.S. Senate

After watching the Democratic Party’s direction diverge further from Delaware families’ real needs, Dr. Katz made a deliberate choice: to align with a party now focused on fiscal responsibility, limited government, and individual liberty, to build the coalition needed to defeat Chris Coons in November 2026.

Ronald Reagan was a Democrat. Donald Trump was a Democrat. The Republican Party is stronger when it earns converts, especially those who bring a lifetime of service and a record to show for it.

“I’ve always been very conservative, fiscally responsible, for limited government. Look at what I’ve done throughout my career since the early 90s. Even when Democrats were telling me I governed like a Republican, I kept doing what was right for Delaware.”

— Dr. Mike Katz

Delaware is the patient. It’s time for a real diagnosis.

In medicine, when a patient isn’t getting better under the current treatment plan, you change the plan. You don’t keep prescribing the same thing and hope for different results. Delaware has had the same senator for fifteen years. The problems haven’t gotten better. It’s time for a different approach.

Dr. Katz will fight to cut the federal spending that is driving inflation and squeezing Delaware families. He will fight to restore competition and transparency to a healthcare system that is failing patients and providers alike. He will fight for Delaware’s small businesses, including the ones that didn’t get the lobbyist carve-outs and are paying the price for it. And he will fight to hold government accountable, the same way he did as a state senator when he was the only conservative in his caucus willing to say what needed to be said.

He is not running to belong to Washington. He is running to change it, and then come home to the state he has served for thirty years.

“I have cared for Delaware families in their most critical moments. Now I am running to serve them in a different way.”

From Politicians to Servant Leaders

Dr. Katz talks about servant leadership not as a slogan, but as a code of conduct he has practiced his entire career. In medicine, you lead from the bedside. You don’t put your interests first. The patient comes first, the team comes second, and your title comes last. He has carried that same orientation into every role he has held since.

In the Delaware State Senate, he was the only conservative in his caucus, and he filed legislation anyway. Not because it was easy, but because term limits, lobby reform, and government transparency were the right prescriptions for Delaware regardless of party politics. He placed people above party then. He will do the same in Washington.

In the community, Dr. Katz has spent decades building relationships across every county in Delaware, with Democrats, Republicans, and Independents alike. He has served in leadership roles with the Medical Society of Delaware and the American Medical Association, mentored the next generation of physicians, and worked to expand healthcare access to communities that have been systematically underserved. He is not doing this to accumulate credentials. He is doing it because servant leaders step forward to serve, and then keep serving, whether they hold office or not.

That is the distinction he is drawing in this race. Delaware doesn’t need more career politicians who govern from ambition. It needs servant leaders who govern from obligation, people who recognize our common humanity, seek unity across difference, and work together to solve the problems that actually matter to families. Dr. Katz has lived that standard for thirty years. He intends to keep living it in Washington.

“I am running to change the political system in Delaware and our country, from politicians to servant leaders. Leaders who step forward to serve, placing people above party, service above self.”

— Dr. Mike Katz, February 2026