About Senator Heckroth

Senator Bill Heckroth was elected to the Iowa Senate in 2006.  He represents Senate District 9, which includes Bremer County, Butler County, north & west Fayette County, and northern Black Hawk County.

Senator Heckroth is an Assistant Majority Leader and vice-chair of three committees: Commerce,  Rebuild Iowa, and the Economic Development Budget Subcommittee. He also serves on the Economic Growth, Education, and Transportation committees.

In 2009, Senator Heckroth received the Friend of the Family Farmer legislative award from the Iowa Farmer's Union.

Bill is a 20-year resident of Waverly, where he owns a financial consulting business, Financial Architects.  He is a member of the Waverly Rotary Club and the Knights of Columbus.

He has been active with several community organizations, including the Waverly–Shell Rock High School Booster Club, the United Way of Waverly-Shell Rock, the Waverly Parks and Recreation Board, St. Mary's Catholic Church Parish Council, and Bartels Lutheran Retirement Community’s Strategic Planning Committee, Board of Directors and Foundation. 

Bill has also been a volunteer baseball coach for the Waverly Little League and Senior League youth baseball programs and at Wartburg College and Waverly-Shell Rock High School and was founder and director of the Coca-Cola Waverly Youth Baseball/Softball Tournament.

He was raised in Dysart, a farming community in Tama County. He is a graduate of the University of Iowa, where he earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Financial Management and played on the Iowa Hawkeye baseball team, earning 1st Team “All Big 10” as a pitcher his senior year and leading the Hawkeyes to the Big 10 Championship and a berth in the NCAA Division I College World Series in Omaha, NE.

Bill is married to Jan Heckroth, a staff chaplain at Allen Hospital in Waterloo. They have three sons: Thomas, who is employed by the U.S. Department of Labor in Washington, D.C.; Andrew, a recent graduate of the University of Iowa with a degree in Psychology and a degree in Business Marketing; and Patrick, a junior at the University of Northern Iowa.