{{short description|American politician}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Dean Fisher | image = Dean Fisher 85thGA.jpeg | image_size = | caption = | state_house = Iowa | district = 53rd | term_start = January 14, 2013 | term_end = | predecessor = Rich Arnold | successor = | constituency = District 53 - (2023-Present)<br> District 72 - (2013-2023) | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1956|9|3}} | birth_place = Garwin, Iowa, U.S. | party = Republican | spouse = Vicki | relations = | children = | alma_mater = DeVry Institute of Technology (Chicago, Illinois) | occupation = | profession = Electronics engineer, farmer | signature = | website = www.deanfisher.com | footnotes = }}
'''Dean C. Fisher''' (born September 3, 1956) is an American politician who has served in the Iowa House of Representatives representing the 53rd district since 2013.<ref name="One">{{cite web| url= http://www.iowahouserepublicans.com/members/dean-fisher/biography| website= iowahouserepublicans.com| title= Dean Fisher| publisher= Republican Party of Iowa| access-date= January 17, 2017| archive-date= January 18, 2017| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20170118054133/http://www.iowahouserepublicans.com/members/dean-fisher/biography| url-status= dead}}</ref><ref name= SR>{{cite web| url= https://www.legis.iowa.gov/legislators/legislator/legislatorAllYears?personID=10755| title= State Representative Dean Fisher | website= legis.iowa.gov| publisher= Iowa State Legislature| access-date= January 17, 2017}}</ref> Fisher is a Republican.<ref name="One"/>
==Early life and education== {{expand section|date= January 2017}} Fisher was born in 1956 and raised in Garwin, Iowa in Tama County.<ref name= SR />
In 1975 he graduated of South Tama Community High School.<ref name= SR /> He earned a Bachelor of Electronics Engineering Technology from DeVry Institute of Technology in Chicago, Illinois, in 1978.<ref name= SR />
==Career== {{expand section|date= January 2017}} Fisher spent 26 years in the electronics industry as an engineer, engineering manager, and business manager. He worked for Qwint Systems, IO Vision, Autotech, and from 1986 until 2004 at Motorola in the Automotive Electronics division.{{citation needed|date=February 2024}}
From 2010 to 2011, Fisher was the chair of his county's Republican Party. He also served as the Indian Village Township Clerk from 2008 to 2013.<ref name="VS" />
Since 2013, he has been an Iowa State Representative for the Republican Party of Iowa from the 53rd District.<ref name= VS>{{cite web| url= https://votesmart.org/candidate/biography/137989/dean-fisher| website= VoteSmart.com| title= Dean Fisher's Biography| publisher= Project Vote Smart | access-date= January 17, 2017}}</ref> He has chaired the environmental protection committee, sits on the agriculture Committee and the public safety committee.
In 2019, Fisher blocked the Farm System Reform Act from being heard.<ref name="schmit">{{Cite news |last=Schmit |first=Emma |date=2020-01-17 |title=Iowa deserves to be more than just a feedlot between two rivers |url=https://www.bleedingheartland.com/2020/01/17/iowa-deserves-to-be-more-than-just-a-feedlot-between-two-rivers/ |access-date=2024-02-29 |language=en-US |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200118050222/https://www.bleedingheartland.com/2020/01/17/iowa-deserves-to-be-more-than-just-a-feedlot-between-two-rivers/ |archive-date=2020-01-18 |url-status=live }}</ref>
In January 2024, Fisher founded a private Christian school named ''Tama Toledo Christian School'', which opened in August 2025.<ref name="tama">{{Cite news |title=New, private Christian school aims to start classes in Tama Co. in 2025 |url=https://www.tamatoledonews.com/news/local-news/2024/01/11/new-private-christian-school-aims-to-start-classes-in-tama-co-in-2025/ |access-date=2024-02-29 |language=en-US |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240111152137/https://www.tamatoledonews.com/news/local-news/2024/01/11/new-private-christian-school-aims-to-start-classes-in-tama-co-in-2025/ |archive-date=2024-01-11 |url-status=live }}</ref> Because school operations will be funded by Coverdell education savings account, Iowa Citizens Community Action alleged a conflict of interest and filed an ethics complaint with the Chief Clerk of the House.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2024-02-28 |title=Iowa CCI Ethics Complaint Against Iowa Representative Dean Fisher |url=https://www.iowacci.org/fisher-complaint |access-date=2024-02-29 |website=Iowa CCI |language=en-US |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240229144915/https://www.iowacci.org/fisher-complaint |archive-date=2024-02-29 |url-status=live }}</ref>
==Personal life== Fisher is married to Vicky Fisher, also on the Board of the Tama Toledo Christian School.<ref name="tama"/> They reside in rural Montour, Iowa on a heritage farm which has been in his family since 1852.<ref name= SR />
Fisher is a member of the National Rifle Association of America; Iowa Firearms Coalition; Amateur Trapshooting Association and the Iowa State Trapshooting Association.<ref name= VS /><ref name= SR /> He is also a member of the American Farm Bureau Federation, the American Motorcycle Association, A Brotherhood Aimed Towards Education (motorcycle organization), The Heritage Foundation, and the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation's W.A.R. Goodwin Society.<ref name= VS /><ref name= SR /> Among his hobbies are hunting, trapshooting, woodworking, model airplanes, motorcycling, quilting, genealogy, horticulture, and astronomy.<ref name= SR />
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== External links == * [https://ballotpedia.org/Dean_Fisher Dean Fisher at ballotpedia.org]
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