Staff Reports
WINDOW ROCK, Ariz. — Former Navajo Nation Vice President Myron Lizer announced his candidacy for President of the Navajo Nation May 12, launching a campaign focused on visionary leadership, economic sovereignty, and long-term prosperity for the Navajo people and most importantly, restoring integrity to the Office of the President.
“After much thought, prayer, and deliberation, I announce that I will commence a campaign to run for President of the Navajo Nation,” Lizer said in a press release. “In the three years since I last held office as Vice President, I have remained deeply engaged with the challenges and opportunities facing our great Nation.”
Lizer served as The Vice President of the Navajo Nation from 2019-2023. ‘19-‘23. He is the owner/manager of four Navajoland Ace Hardware Stores. He has managed, owned, and supervised in four Fortune 500 companies having gleaned a rich management acumen from these respective business cultures.
Upon helping win an election in what became his first term in tribal leadership, Lizer led, built, and maintained strong leadership principles, solidifying relational shaky-ground that has become the current political landscape, to helping garner consensus and moving forward key projects to success.
Lizer believes that relationships are key in pressing governmental entities past normal sticking points, working toward sound policy implementation, and recommending good judgement in advocacy for willingness to look at new ways of collaboration and partnership. He brings a wealth of knowledge in relational marketing and business development honed as an entrepreneur and business developer. Lizer served on private business boards, private school boards, guided congregations as a bi-vocational pastor, and participated in community concerns; he founded the Charter Chapter of U.S. Junior Chamber of Commerce (Jaycees) in Window Rock in the late 1990’s, and growing family business in expansion endeavors with a vision to create more jobs and give opportunity to employees and their growing families.
His wife of 35 years Dottie Lizer, the former Second Lady of the Navajo Nation, serves as his business/ministry partner; they have three adult children and two grandchildren.
“Today, our Nation stands at a crossroads,” Lizer said. “We must choose a path forward into a new and accelerated era—one where our people have hope, direction, and confidence that their government is working for them. Leadership must make calculated, strategic decisions that expand industry, grow business opportunities, and strengthen our economy.”
