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Source: Iowa Territorial and State Legislators Collection compiled by volunteers and staff at the State Historical Society of Iowa Library, Des Moines, Iowa. Iowa General Assembly - Kurt Swaim (D): 94 Page 1 of 1

Representative Kurt Swaim Eighty-Second General Assembly

Standing Committee Legislation Sponsored Assignments • l?.i.!.!§ • Agriculture • Amendments • Government Oversight • Judiciary (Chair) Subcommittee Assignrrt§.nts • · Public Safety • Transportation

Kurt Swaim State Representative E-mail: [email protected] House District 94 Home Address: 504 North Davis, Bloomfield, lA, 52537 Democrat Home Telephone: 641-664-2455 State Capitol Des Moines, lA 50319

Source:http://www3.legis.state.ia.us/ga/member.do?id=256&ga=82 Iowa Territorial and State Legislators Collection compiled by volunteers and staff at the State Historical Society of Iowa Library,11/5/2010 Des Moines, Iowa. COVER STORY I

HELEN MILLER* is a He was in the Air Force for 10 years, Department of Agriculture. He is treasurer Democrat serving her first where he attended Officer Training of the Iowa Professional Lawn Care term in the Iowa House School. Association and Iowa Turf Grass Institute. (District 49 in Webster He has two sons and two daughters. Doug was vice president of Council County) and is an arts Bluffs Trees Forever and West HELEN educator as well as a lawyer. MIKE REASONER* is a first Pottawattamie County Extension Council. MILLER She earned a Bachelor term member of the Iowa He has a daughter. of Arts in business House who received his administration from Howard University, a Bachelor of Science degree KURT SWAIM,* of Master of Science in library science from and Juris Doctorate from Bloomfield, represents Our Lady of the Lake University and the MIKE Creighton University. District 94 (in Appanoose, Juris Doctorate from Georgetown REASONER A Democrat, Mike repre Davis and Wayne Counties) University Law Center. sents District 95 (in Clarke, and is a first term Democrat Helen lives in Fort Dodge where she is a Decatur and Union Counties) from his KURT in the House. member of the Area Symphony Board of Creston home where he is owner/ operator SWAIM He is a graduate of Iowa Directors, Public Library Board of of Reasoner Oil Company. He chairs the Weslyan where he received Trustees, Youth Shelter Care of North Region XIV Workforce Investment Board a bachelor's degree in economics and Central Iowa, Inc. Board of Directors, and and serves on the board of Midwest business administration and the University Blanden Memorial Art Museum board. Opportunities Corning-Creston. of Iowa College of Law where he received She also serves on the Webster City-Fort He has been a Union County supervisor the Juris Doctorate. Dodge Human Rights Commission and and is a member ofJudicial District 5B Kurt was Davis County attorney and a Webster City Crimestoppers. Youth Shelter in Lamoni, the Union member of the board and an officer of She has two daughters, a son and a County Law Enforcement Commission, Citizens Mutual Telephone Company in grandson. Crossroads Mental Health-Creston and Bloomfield. Area 14 Agency on Aging. He has four children and one JO OLDSON, * a former He has a daughter and two sons. grandchild. advisor to Governor Thomas Vilsack and first deputy Iowa DON REDFERN is a third insurance commissioner, term member of the Senate lives in Des Moines (District and represents District 10 in JO OLDSON 61 in Polk County). This is Black Hawk County. He is a her first term in the Iowa Republican. House. DON He is a partner in a law Jo was awarded the Bachelor of Arts and REDFERN firm in Cedar Falls where he the Juris Doctorate by Drake University. resides. He graduated with a She has been an active fund raiser for Bachelor of Arts in economics from United Way, is past president of Young Carleton College and the Juris Doctorate Women's Resource Center Board of from Columbia University School of Law. Directors and volunteers with the Big Don is a member of Cedar Valley Brothers/Big Sisters Program and Economic Development Corporation, homeless shelter. Cedar Falls Amvets and Rotary. He She is a Democrat. participates in the ISBA Volunteer Lawyers Project. He served in the Ronald E. Nielsen, KRAIG PAULSEN,* a first Army for two years. CPA/ABV, ASA, CFE, CVA term member of the House, He has one child. Roger C. Jones, CPA, CVA has a Bachelor's of Business Wayne R. Brown, ASA, MBA Administration degree from DOUG STRUYK* is another Iowa State University and an first-term Democrat serving Jessica C. Schiesl KRAIG M.B.A. from Embry-Riddle in the House. He represents Aeronautical University. District 99 in Pottawattamie PAULSEN ~Clifton He is working on the County and lives in Council. l2fl Gunderson LLP Juris Doctorate at the University of Iowa DOUG Bluffs where he practices Certified Public Accountants & Consultants College of Law. STRUYK and owns a small business. When Relationships Count" '~," Kraig represents District 35 in Linn Doug graduated from 2700 Westown Parkway ( Lounty and is a Republican. He is Iowa State University with a Bachelor of Suite 400 employed as a production supervisor and Science degree and from Creighton West Des Moines, Iowa 50266 lives in Cedar Rapids. University with the Juris Doctorate. 515-222-4400 He was chief of the Agricultural Diversification Bureau of the Iowa www.diftoncpa.com Source: Iowa Territorial and State Legislators Collection compiled by volunteers and staff at the State Historical Society of Iowa Library, Des Moines, Iowa. THEJOWA LAWYER Fe!Jruary 2003 13 3. SIGNIFICANT EVENTS/ACCOMPUSHMENTS

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