Joseph "Joe" Roy Schomacker (born March 25, 1986) is an American politician serving in the
Minnesota House of Representatives since 2011. A member of the
Republican Party of Minnesota, Schomacker represents District 21A in the southwestern corner of the state, which includes the cities of
Luverne and
Pipestone and parts of
Cottonwood,
Lincoln,
Murray,
Nobles,
Pipestone, and
Rock Counties.
Early life, education and career
Schomacker graduated from
Luverne Senior High School in
Luverne and from
Southwest Minnesota State University in
Marshall, earning his
B.A. in public administration, speech communication and political science in 2008. He served as the university's student body president in 2007-08. In 2010, he earned his
M.P.S. online from
George Washington University . He is an independent
public relations consultant.
Minnesota House of Representatives
Schomacker was elected to the
Minnesota House of Representatives in
2010
The year saw a multitude of natural and environmental disasters such as the 2010 Haiti earthquake, the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, and the 2010 Chile earthquake. The 2009 swine flu pandemic, swine flu pandemic which began the previous year ...
and has been reelected every two years since. In 2010, he defeated former representative and
DFL House Majority Leader Ted Winter for the seat being vacated by incumbent
Doug Magnus, who opted to run for an open
Minnesota Senate seat.
Schomacker served as an assistant minority leader during the 2013-14 legislative session. In 2015-16 he chaired the Aging & Long-Term Care Policy Committee, and in 2017-18 he chaired the Health & Human Services Reform Committee. Schomacker is the minority lead on the Health Finance and Policy Committee and sits on the Economic Development Finance and Policy and Ways and Means Committees.
Electoral history
References
External links
Rep. Schomacker Web PageProject Votesmart - Rep. Joe Schomacker Profile
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1986 births
Living people
People from Luverne, Minnesota
Republican Party members of the Minnesota House of Representatives
21st-century members of the Minnesota Legislature