Sarah Trone Garriott

Trone Garriott is a Democratic member of the Iowa Senate, an ordained Lutheran minister, and a nonprofit coordinator who was first elected to the legislature in 2020. She has held a Senate seat in the Des Moines suburbs since 2021 and previously served as Senate minority whip. According to her campaign website, she is running to give Iowans a voice in Washington, with an emphasis on health care and working families.[1][2][3]

Trone Garriott was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, graduated from Cloquet High School, and earned a B.A. in history from the College of St. Scholastica in 1999.[1] According to her campaign website, she spent a year as an AmeriCorps VISTA volunteer supporting victims of domestic violence and then attended Harvard Divinity School, where she earned an M.A. in theological studies in 2003 while working at a women's shelter and a youth nonprofit.[2][1] She worked as a hospital chaplain, including at Lurie Children's Hospital in Chicago from 2005 to 2008, and received an M.Div. from the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago in 2008. She is ordained in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.[3][1]

Trone Garriott served as pastor of Martin Luther Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bergton, Virginia, before moving to Iowa in 2013 to join Faith Lutheran Church in Clive as associate pastor.[1][2] Since 2017 she has been coordinator of interfaith engagement for the Des Moines Area Religious Council Food Pantry Network, and she co-founded the Iowa Interfaith Exchange.[1][2][3]

In November 2020 she won an open Iowa Senate seat in District 22, held by a retiring Republican, with 51.1% of the vote, and she took office in January 2021.[3][2][4] After redistricting she ran in District 14 in 2022 and defeated Senate President Jake Chapman, 51.5% to 48.5%; she won re-election in 2024 by 29 votes after a recount.[3][2][4] She served as Senate minority whip during the 90th General Assembly and, in the current session, sits on the Education Committee and is ranking member of the Health and Human Services Committee.[3]

Trone Garriott announced her congressional candidacy on May 5, 2025, and was unopposed in the Democratic primary.[3][4] According to Wikipedia, she lives in West Des Moines with her husband and two sons.[2][3]

Researched from the cited sources on 2026-10-21.