Liz Mathis
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| Member of the Iowa Senate from the 34th (previously 18th) district |
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Assumed office November 21, 2011 |
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| Preceded by | Swati Dandekar |
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Elizabeth Ann Rumann 1958 (age 58–59) |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Spouse(s) | Mark Mathis III |
| Residence | near Robins, Iowa, United States |
| Alma mater | University of Iowa |
| Occupation | Nonprofit executive, former news anchor, television producer, college professor |
Elizabeth Ann Mathis (née Rumann; born 1958) is an American state legislator and nonprofit executive from Iowa, as well as a former news anchor, television producer, and college professor. She won a November 2011 special election to the Iowa Senate representing the 18th district in suburban Linn County, and was re-elected to the redrawn 34th district the following year.
A member of the Democratic Party, Mathis co-chairs the Administration and Regulation Appropriations Subcommittee and serves on Education, Commerce, Economic Growth, Human Resources and full Appropriations committees. She is also the legislative liaison to the Iowa Department of Public Health. Mathis also is the CCO, chief community officer, for a child welfare and juvenile justice agency, Four Oaks.
Mathis was born on a farm in rural DeWitt, Iowa in 1958. Her mother, Mary Eleanor Rumann, was a schoolteacher and nurse who served in World War II. Her father, James Edward Rumann, was a farmer and school board member who also served in the war. Mathis received her bachelor's degree in 1980 from the University of Iowa, where she double-majored in broadcasting and film and in journalism. To put herself through college, she worked weekends as a production assistant at WMT-TV (now KGAN).
After graduating, she joined KWWL as a reporter and anchor, doing "a little bit of everything" from their newly opened Cedar Rapids bureau. Soon after joining the station, she moved to Waterloo to become an evening co-anchor alongside Ron Steele at the age of 23. Taking a break from broadcasting, in August 1996 she joined the faculty of Wartburg College in Waverly, Iowa, where she taught electronic media. In 1998 she became a news anchor, reporter and producer at KCRG-TV, where she remained for nine years. In July 2007, she retired from broadcasting to become vice president for community relations for Horizons—A Family Service Alliance, a non-profit counseling and assistance agency in Cedar Rapids. She later became chief community officer for Four Oaks.
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