Heidi Heitkamp

Heidi Heitkamp (born August 20 1955) is a lawyer and politician from the U.S. state of North Dakota. She was attorney general of the state from 1993 to 2001. She ran on the Democratic-NPL ticket for governor in 2000, losing to John Hoeven.

During her campaign for governor it was announced that she had been diagnosed with breast cancer, which later went into remission.