Chet Culver & Patty Judge for Iowa

Chet Culver has spent his entire adult life teaching, coaching and helping make Iowa a better place to live, work, and raise a family.

Chet Culver began his career as an environmental and consumer advocate in the Iowa Attorney General’s Office. After receiving his Master of Arts in Teaching at Drake University in 1994, he taught government and history at Roosevelt High School and Hoover High School in Des Moines, where he also coached football and basketball.

In 1998, Chet was elected as Iowa’s 29th Secretary of State and the youngest Secretary of State in the nation, and he was re-elected in 2002. As Secretary of State, Chet created the Iowa Student Political Awareness Club (ISPAC), a nonpartisan statewide student organization dedicated to increasing civic and community participation among Iowa’s young people. He also streamlined Iowa’s voting process, making it easier for people to vote, and expanded access to polling places for the disabled.

In 2006 Chet Culver was elected Governor of the state of Iowa. As Governor, Culver has managed the state through the worst flood in Iowa history and a world wide recession, without raising taxes. While balancing three budgets, he increased the minimum wage, brought teacher salaries and expanded health care for uninsured Iowa children. In addition, Chet has invested millions in new jobs, new roads, new bridges, renewable energy and flood prevention, and at the same time protected our state’s cash reserves and improved Iowa’s bond rating to Triple-A. The Governor has also helped attract new industries like IBM and Google to the state and led the way to Iowa becoming a national leader in wind and alternative energy.

During these troubled times, Chet has been a strong leader who has forced government to tighten its belt and do more with less – while extending a helping hand to families and small businesses in need. He managed our state responsibly, efficiently, and compassionately without using budget gimmicks and with an eye to our future.

The result has been a strong business climate and one of the fastest growing economies of any state.

Chet Culver and Patty Judge have earned our support and we need to re-elect them to keep Iowa moving forward.

Chet and his wife, Mari, live with their two young children, Clare Honour and John William, at Terrace Hill. Chet is a member of the Central Presbyterian Church, where he served as an Elder.