Orrin G. Hatch is the senior United States senator for Utah. He has served as the chairman or ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee (depending on whether the Republicans controlled the Senate) from 1993 to 2005.
Hatch is a member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee, Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, and the Joint Committee on Taxation. He currently serves as ranking member of the Senate Finance Committee. As of 2011, he is in his sixth term as a U.S. senator.