Dean Fisher

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Dean Fisher
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Official portrait of Iowa Representative Dean Fisher for the 85th General Assembly.
Member of the IowaHouseofRepresentatives
from the 53rd district
Incumbent
Assumed office
January 14, 2013

Fisher was born in 1956 and raised in Garwin, Iowa in Tama County. [2]

In 1975 he graduated of South Tama Community High School. [2] He earned a Bachelor of Electronics Engineering Technology from DeVry Institute of Technology in Chicago, Illinois, in 1978. [2]

Career

Fisher spent 26 years in the electronics industry as an engineer, engineering manager, and business manager. He worked for Qwint Systems, IO Vision, Autotech, and from 1986 until 2004 at Motorola in the Automotive Electronics division.[ citation needed ]

From 2010 to 2011, Fisher was the chair of his county's Republican Party. He also served as the Indian Village Township Clerk from 2008 to 2013. [3]

Since 2013, he has been an Iowa State Representative for the Republican Party of Iowa from the 53rd District. [3] He has chaired the environmental protection committee, sits on the agriculture Committee and the public safety committee. In 2019, Fisher intentionally blocked the Farm System Reform Act from being heard. [4] In 2023 the environmental protection committee met only 4 times and Fisher did not propose a single bill; in 2024 he proposed a raccoon bounty bill and was criticized as "fiscally irresponsible... in a state where we’re defunding water quality sensors and not funding research on childhood cancer". [5]

In January 2024, Fisher founded a private Christian school named Tama Toledo Christian School, which is set to open in August 2025. [6] Because school operations will be funded by Coverdell education savings account / private school vouchers (a bill that Republican Governor Kim Reynolds had pursued since 2021, the Students First Act), Iowa Citizens Community Action saw a conflict of interest and filed an ethics complaint with the Chief Clerk of the House. [7]

Personal life

Fisher is married to Vicky Fisher, also on the Board of the Tama Toledo Christian School. [6] They reside in rural Montour, Iowa on a heritage farm which has been in his family since 1852. [2]

Fisher is a member of the National Rifle Association of America; Iowa Firearms Coalition; Amateur Trapshooting Association and the Iowa State Trapshooting Association. [3] [2] He is also a member of the American Farm Bureau Federation, the American Motorcycle Association, A Brotherhood Aimed Towards Education (motorcycle organization), The Heritage Foundation, and the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation's W.A.R. Goodwin Society. [3] [2] Among his hobbies are hunting, trapshooting, woodworking, model airplanes, motorcycling, quilting, genealogy, horticulture, and astronomy. [2]

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References

  1. ↑ "Dean Fisher". iowahouserepublicans.com. Republican Party of Iowa. Archived from the original on January 18, 2017. Retrieved January 17, 2017.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 "State Representative Dean Fisher". legis.iowa.gov. Iowa State Legislature. Retrieved January 17, 2017.
  3. 1 2 3 4 "Dean Fisher's Biography". VoteSmart.com. Project Vote Smart. Retrieved January 17, 2017.
  4. ↑ Schmit, Emma (2020-01-17). "Iowa deserves to be more than just a feedlot between two rivers". Archived from the original on 2020-01-18. Retrieved 2024-02-29.
  5. ↑ Belin, Laura (2024-02-11). ""It's embarrassing"—Democrats slam do-nothing Iowa House environment panel". Archived from the original on 2024-02-11. Retrieved 2024-02-29.
  6. 1 2 "New, private Christian school aims to start classes in Tama Co. in 2025". Archived from the original on January 11, 2024. Retrieved 2024-02-29.
  7. ↑ "Iowa CCI Ethics Complaint Against Iowa Representative Dean Fisher". Iowa CCI. 2024-02-28. Archived from the original on 2024-02-29. Retrieved 2024-02-29.
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