Charles Isenhart

{{Short description|American politician}} {{Use mdy dates|date=April 2025}} {{Infobox officeholder | image = Member of the Iowa House of Representatives Charles William Isenhart.jpg | image_size = frameless | name = Charles Isenhart | state_house = Iowa | district = 72nd | term_start = 2008 | term_end = 2025 | preceded = | succeeded = Jennifer Smith | constituency = District 72 (2023-Present)<br> District 100 (2013-2023)<br> District 27 (2009-2013) | party = Democratic | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1959|3|30}} | birth_place = Dubuque, Iowa, U.S. | alma_mater = | occupation = | spouse = | website = }}

'''Charles William Isenhart''' (born March 30, 1959, in Dubuque, Iowa) is an American politician. A Democrat, he represented the 72nd District in the Iowa House of Representatives from 2008 to 2025.<ref name="Iowa Innovation Council" />

==Education== Isenhart graduated from Wahlert High School and in 1981 obtained his degree in political science and mass communications from Loras College. In 1984 he received his master's degree in journalism from Marquette University.<ref name="Iowa Innovation Council" />

==Career== Outside politics Isenhart owns a small business called Common Good Services. From 1990 to 2007, he was executive director of the Dubuque Area Labor-Management Council.<ref name="Iowa Innovation Council" />

==Organizations== Isenhart has been or is currently a member of the following organizations:

===Professional=== *Labor and Employment Relations Association *National Business Coalition on Health *Iowa 2010 Strategic Planning Council *Iowans for a Better Future Board of Directors *Governor's 21st Century Workforce Council *Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service Customer Council<ref name="Iowa Innovation Council" />

===Community=== *Dubuque Housing Commission *Dubuque Community Development Commission *Dubuque County Mental Health/Developmental Disabilities Stakeholders Committee *Dubuque Soccer Club *American Youth Soccer Organization *America's River Soccer Classic *Dubuque Housing Coalition *Healthy Dubuque 2000 *Crescent Community Health Center Planning Committee *Downtown Neighborhood Council *St. Raphael Cathedral Parish *Habitat for Humanity board *Project Concern *Dubuque Food Pantry *Dubuque Soccer Alliance<ref name="Iowa Innovation Council">{{cite web|title=Representative Charles Isenhart (D)|url=http://www.iowainnovationcouncil.com/en/about_iic/council_members/exofficio_members/representative_charles_isenhart_d/|publisher=Iowa Innovation Council|access-date=15 December 2013}}</ref>

==References== {{Reflist}}

{{s-start}} {{s-par|us-ia-hs}} {{succession box| title=72nd District |before=Dean Fisher | years = 2023 – 2025|after=Jennifer Smith}} {{succession box| title=100th District |before= | years = 2013 – 2023|after=Martin Graber}} {{succession box| title=27th District|before=|years=2009-2013|after=}} {{s-end}}

==External links== * [https://web.archive.org/web/20120214155717/http://www3.legis.state.ia.us/ga/member.do?id=7494 Representative Charles Isenhart] ''official Iowa General Assembly site'' *[https://web.archive.org/web/20110116132556/http://www.house.iowa.gov/isenhart/ Charles Isenhart State Representative] ''official constituency site'' * {{CongLinks | congbio= | votesmart=103349 | fec= | congress= }}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Isenhart, Charles}} Category:Democratic Party members of the Iowa House of Representatives Category:21st-century members of the Iowa General Assembly Category:Living people Category:Place of birth missing (living people) Category:1959 births Category:Politicians from Dubuque, Iowa Category:Loras College alumni Category:Marquette University alumni