Kopp served as an officer in the
Anchorage Police Department and Kenai Police Department for a combined 20 years. He later became a certified polygraph examiner. For seven years, he served as Chief of Police of
Kenai, Alaska and acting city manager from 2005 to 2006. Kopp served as an advisor to Governors
Sarah Palin and
Frank Murkowski. He also served as the chief of staff for two members of the
Alaska Senate. He was elected to the
Alaska House of Representatives in 2016 and assumed office in 2017. A member of the
Alaska Republican Party, Kopp was affiliated with the Republican Coalition in the Alaska House, a bipartisan group of Democratic, Republican, and Independent politicians. Kopp has written opinion columns for the
Anchorage Daily News,
Juneau Empire, and
Peninsula Clarion. ==Electoral history==