| Donald McFarlane | |
| State House: | New Hampshire |
| District: | Grafton 18th |
| Term Start: | December 4, 2024 |
| Succeeding: | John Sellers |
| Birth Name: | Donald Stewart McFarlane |
| Birth Place: | United Kingdom |
| Party: | Republican[1] |
| Residence: | Orange, New Hampshire, U.S.[2] |
Donald Stewart McFarlane is a British-American politician and cybersecurity consultant. He is the member-elect for the Grafton 18th district of the New Hampshire House of Representatives.[3] The district represents the towns of Alexandria, Bridgewater, Bristol, Canaan, Dorchester, Enfield, Grafton, Groton, Hebron, and Orange.[4] He is a member of the planning board and budgeting committee for the town of Orange,[5] where he has lived since 2008.[6]
McFarlane is on the advisory board of red-team vendor Xcape Inc. He is a former Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) for American International Group Investments and Bluestone Capital Partners, and Business Information Security Officer (BISO) at Merrill Lynch. He has contributed at many hacker conferences and is the owner of McFarlane Associates, LLC.[7]
McFarlane was raised in the United Kingdom and the United States. He became a permanent resident of the United States in 1995 after he finished his studies and served in the military. He is an electrical engineering graduate. He became an American citizen in 2002.McFarlane and his wife Karen married in 2012. They have one son and a dog named Neep.[6] McFarlane first ran for the Grafton 9th district in the New Hampshire House of Representatives in 2022, winning the Republican party primary but losing the general election to Corinne Morse.[8] He won the November 2024 election against Carolyn Fluehr-Lobban for the Grafton 18th district.[9]
McFarlane supports a "constitutional, limited government". He is an advocate of school choice.[10]