{"id":7748,"date":"2018-04-11T12:50:17","date_gmt":"2018-04-11T17:50:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iowasenaterepublicans.com\/?page_id=7748"},"modified":"2023-01-25T12:08:57","modified_gmt":"2023-01-25T18:08:57","slug":"annette-sweeney","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/iowasenaterepublicans.com\/senators\/annette-sweeney\/","title":{"rendered":"Annette Sweeney"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide\" style=\"grid-template-columns:33% auto\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"731\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/iowasenaterepublicans.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/SweeneyAnnette2019-731x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9898 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/iowasenaterepublicans.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/SweeneyAnnette2019-731x1024.jpeg 731w, https:\/\/iowasenaterepublicans.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/SweeneyAnnette2019-214x300.jpeg 214w, https:\/\/iowasenaterepublicans.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/SweeneyAnnette2019-137x192.jpeg 137w, https:\/\/iowasenaterepublicans.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/SweeneyAnnette2019.jpeg 750w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 731px) 100vw, 731px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">State Senator, District 27<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Phone<\/strong>: 641-373-4899<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Email: <\/strong>annette.sweeney@legis.iowa.gov<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Committees:<\/strong> Natural Resources and Environment (Chair), Agriculture, Health and Human Services, International Relations (Co-Chair), Ways and Means<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Subcommittee:<\/strong> Agriculture and Natural Resources Appropriations (Vice Chair)<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:25px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-text-color has-alpha-channel-opacity has-background is-style-wide\" style=\"background-color:#0000001a;color:#0000001a\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Sign up for updates from Senator Sweeney:<\/h5>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-jetpack-contact-form\"><a href=\"https:\/\/iowasenaterepublicans.com\/senators\/annette-sweeney\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Submit a form.<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n<div style=\"height:25px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-text-color has-alpha-channel-opacity has-background\" style=\"background-color:#0000001a;color:#0000001a\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>An Iowa native, Senator Annette Sweeney grew up on a family farm near Buckeye. After graduating from college, she educated middle school students as a teacher of English and speech. Upon her father\u2019s untimely death in 1983, Senator Sweeney moved back home to Buckeye to the family farm with her mother and sister. After 40\u00a0years of operating the family farm, she and her husband passed the farm down to their son and his wife. Senator Sweeney still enjoys spending time out on the farm helping her son.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Senator Sweeney has deep connections to Iowa\u2019s agriculture community. During her time as a state representative, Sweeney served as chair of the Iowa House Agriculture Committee before going on to serve as Iowa Rural Development Director for the United States Department of Agriculture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Senator Sweeney has served in numerous professional and community leadership positions with various organizations, including the Iowa Agriculture Water Alliance, Iowa Women in Agriculture, Hardin County Assessor Board and Review, Iowa Farm Bureau Federation, Iowa Soybean Association, Iowa Corn Growers Association, Iowa Cattlemen\u2019s Association, National Cattlemen\u2019s Beef Association, Iowa 4-H, and Iowa Angus Association.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>State Senator, District 27<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":7760,"parent":10,"menu_order":30,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P5y3Wb-20Y","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iowasenaterepublicans.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7748"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iowasenaterepublicans.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iowasenaterepublicans.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iowasenaterepublicans.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iowasenaterepublicans.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7748"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/iowasenaterepublicans.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7748\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12879,"href":"https:\/\/iowasenaterepublicans.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7748\/revisions\/12879"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iowasenaterepublicans.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iowasenaterepublicans.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iowasenaterepublicans.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}