Representative Joel Fry View All Years

Compiled Historical Information

Birth Place: Des Moines, IA

Birth County: Polk

Birth Country: USA

Party Affiliation: Republican

Assemblies Served:
House: 84 (2011)
85 (2013)
86 (2015)
87 (2017)
88 (2019)
89 (2021) - 90 (2023)

Home County: Clarke

Joel Fry

Clarke County

Term

Serving sixth term in House.

Profession

Therapist, speaker, health care consultant, and college professor. President of TEAM Restoration Ministries based in Osceola. Lecturer faculty at Simpson College and past adjunct faculty at the University of Iowa School of Social Work. Lectures and consults nationally on hospice and palliative care issues.

Education

Received B.A. from Simpson College and M.S.W. and Aging Studies Certificate from the University of Iowa School of Social Work.

Memberships and Activities

Serves on HCI Care Services Advisory Board, Osceola. Past co-chair of the Hospice and Palliative Care Association of Iowa’s Education Committee and Social Work Peer Group. Served on numerous national committees relating to hospice and palliative care. Past member of the National Peer Grant Review Committee with the American Cancer Society. Past board member and board chair of the Hospice and Palliative Care Association of Iowa and Warren County Christian School (Victory Christian Academy) Board of Directors.

Birth and Residence

Born in 1974 in Des Moines. Raised in Osceola and resides in rural Clarke County.

Family Members

Wife, Heather; six sons and three daughters.

House District 27