State Senator Amanda Ragan is currently serving her second term in the Iowa Senate. She represents Senate District 7, which includes Mitchell and Floyd counties and parts of Cerro Gordo and Howard counties.

Senator Ragan is an Assistant Majority Leader and chair of the Human Resources Committee. She also serves on the Appropriations, Natural Resources & Environment, Rules & Administration, and Veterans Affairs committees. In addition, Ragan is a member of the Health & Human Services Budget Subcommittee.

Senator Ragan is a part of the Healthy & Well Kids in Iowa (hawk-i) Board, the Electronic Health Records System Task Force, the Senior Living Coordinating Unit, and the Medical Assistance Advisory Council.

Senator Ragan has served as a Mason City Chamber of Commerce Diplomat and was named Diplomat of the Year in 1998 and 2001.  She has also served on the Mason City Sesquicentennial Committee, the Iowa Democratic Party State Central Committee, the Mason City Sunrise Rotary Board, the Kinney Pioneer Museum Board, the Buena Vista University Alumni Association Board, and in the North Iowa Fund-raising Professionals Association.

Ragan has worked for the North Iowa Girl Scout Council and serves as the executive director of Meals on Wheels and Community Kitchen of North Iowa, both located in Mason City.

She is married to James Ragan, a retired United States Air Force Lt. Colonel, who now works as director of Community Relations at KCMR radio in Mason City.  Senator Ragan has two grown children, Edith and Charles.