Republican, Iowa State Senate, District 22 (2013 to 2021)
Advisor, Legislative Advisory Board
Charles M. Schneider is a former Republican member of the Iowa Senate, where he represented District 22, covering West Des Moines and Clive in suburban Polk County, from 2013 to 2021. First elected in a December 2012 special election and re-elected in 2016, he served as Senate majority whip and, from March 2018, as President of the Iowa Senate, briefly holding the post of acting majority leader in 2018. During his tenure he sat on the Appropriations Committee and served as vice chair of the Rules and Administration Committee. He had earlier served on the West Des Moines City Council from 2007 to 2012. He did not seek re-election in 2020 and left the Senate in January 2021.
Schneider is an attorney and has served as counsel at Principal Financial Group since 2007, after practicing with the Des Moines firm Dickinson Mackaman Tyler and Hagen. He holds a bachelor’s degree from Creighton University and a juris doctor and master of business administration from the University of Iowa. He serves on the Legislative Advisory Board of the Council for a Secure America, a council of state elected officials that supports the organization’s work on energy security. His legislative service came in Iowa, the nation’s leading producer of fuel ethanol and its second largest generator of wind power, where energy production is a central part of the state economy.
