Daryl Beall was elected in 2006 to his second four-year term to the Iowa Senate. He represents the people of Calhoun, Greene and Webster counties.

Senator Beall is chair of the Veterans Affairs Committee and the International Relations Committee. He serves as vice-chair of the Local Government Committee. Beall is also a member of the Economic Growth, Education, and Transportation committees, as well as the Transportation Budget Subcommittee.

In addition to his committee work, Senator Beall serves on the Education Commission of the States and the Interstate Cooperation Commission.

Beall was born in Fort Dodge and grew up near the Calhoun County town of Somers. He attended Iowa Central Community College in Fort Dodge, where he earned his associates degree and served as student body president. He earned a B.A. in political science from Buena Vista University and a Master of Public Administration from Drake University. He was a Taft Fellow at Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota.

Beall taught political science courses at Urbandale High School, where he created and directed the Government Intern program in which students worked for state legislators. He earned the Teacher’s Medal from the Freedoms Foundation at Valley Forge for his innovative teaching style. He later was twice elected to the Fort Dodge School Board, where he chaired the superintendent search committee and was instrumental in adding a global literacy component to the curriculum.

Beall managed his family-owned furniture business in Fort Dodge and was president of the Downtown Retailers Association. He also served as president of the Interfaith Forum, the Kiwanis Club, chairman of the missions committee at his church, and as a board member of the Child Abuse Council, Arts Council, Partners in Tourism, and the Alcoholism Treatment Center.

He was active in Sister City, serving as president, and helped organize linkages in Japan, Canada and Russia. He worked as a mission volunteer with the Lakota people in South Dakota. He co-chaired the Workforce 2010 initiative designed to bring former Iowans back to the state to live, work and raise a family. He served on various chamber of commerce and economic development boards and currently serves on the Disabilities Alliance.

Beall is a member of the Izaak Walton League, the Kiwanis Club, and Trinity United Methodist Church. He earned the 2002 Martin Luther King Jr. Award for Community Service for his demonstrated efforts to promote racial harmony and tolerance of all people.

Beall ran for Secretary of State in 1972 and remains the youngest statewide candidate in the history of Iowa. He served on the Washington staff of Congressman Stanley Greigg and on the Academy Selection Committee for Congressman Berkley Bedell.

Through what The Des Moines Tribune called “Beall’s one-man crusade,” Daryl focused statewide attention on reforming Iowa’s lower courts and urged the Iowa Legislature to pass a proposed Unified Court System, which it did. He was elected and served as Justice of Peace before the office was eliminated. He was a member of the Home Rule Charter Steering Committee that brought about a more representative form of municipal government in Fort Dodge.

Beall was a newspaper columnist, editor, publisher and public relations manager at weekly and daily newspapers in Iowa, Colorado and South Dakota before returning to Fort Dodge, where he was marketing director for The Messenger. In that capacity he organized the Unsung Heroes project that recognized the contributions of veterans and earned the Veterans Council Certificate of Appreciation. He has earned several state, national and Associated Press awards for column and editorial writing and for newspaper promotion. He also served as University Relations Director and on the President’s Council at Dakota Wesleyan University.

Daryl and his wife, Jo Ann, have three grown children and eight grandchildren living in Iowa.