Biography
A Representative from Iowa. Born in Herlong, Lassen County, Calif. , September 6, 1955. Attended San Antonio Junior College, San Antonio, Texas. B. S. N. , Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, Texas, 1976. M. S. , University of Southern California, Los Angeles, Calif. , 1980. M. D. , University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, Texas, 1986. United States Army, 1976-1982. United States Army Reserve, 1983-2000. Assistant professor, University of Michigan, 1991-1994. Assistant professor, University of Iowa, 1994-1997. Ophthalmologist. Director, Iowa Department of Public Health, 2010-2013. Unsuccessful candidate for election to the One Hundred Eleventh Congress in 2008, One Hundred Twelfth Congress in 2010, and One Hundred Fourteenth Congress in 2014. Member of the Iowa state senate, 2019-2020. Elected as a Republican to the One Hundred Seventeenth and to the two succeeding Congresses (January 3, 2021-present).