Wayne Ford

Wayne W. Ford (born December 21, 1951) is the Iowa State Representative from the 65th District. He has served in the Iowa House of Representatives since 1997.

This article is about the Iowa State Representative. For the American serial killer, see Wayne Adam Ford.
Wayne W. Ford
Member of the Iowa House of Representatives
from the 65th district
Assumed office
1997
Preceded byCarmine Boal
Personal details
Born (1951-12-21) December 21, 1951
Washington, D.C.
Political partyDemocrat
ResidenceDes Moines, Iowa
Alma materDrake University
WebsiteFord's website

Early life and education

Ford was born in Washington, D.C. in 1951[1] and grew up living in Washington's inner city. He graduated from Ballou High School. After high school, he received a football scholarship to play at Rochester Junior College in Minnesota. In 1974, he obtained his bachelor's degree in Education from Drake University where he played on a football scholarship.[2]

Career

Ford currently serves on several committees in the Iowa House - the Appropriations committee; the Economic Growth committee; the Human Resources committee; and the Government Oversight committee, where he is vice chair.

Ford was re-elected in 2006 with 5,405 votes, running unopposed. Ford also owns and operates his own consulting firm, Wayne Ford & Associates.[2]

Organizations
  • Founder of Brown & Black Presidential Forum- 1984
  • Founder of Urban Dreams- 1985[2]
gollark: Oh, and their suggestion of "free 15Mbps internet connectivity" is underspecified and stupid. I would just have someone or other design a mandatorily-implemented-in-all-computers-with-communications-hardware self-organizing mesh network protocol.
gollark: Schools would be replaced with large warehouse-type spaces with computers, vaguely intelligent-looking adults and arbitrarily large quantities of children in them.
gollark: The profit margin cap on companies is obviously stupid. Instead, clones of me (technology TODO) would be authorized to randomly inspect and restructure companies to make them work better.
gollark: In the interests of fairness (treating people how they want to be treated), the death penalty would only be used on people who had previously supported the death penalty.
gollark: So I would instead assign a quota for *total* health, and distribute healthcare to maximize that.

References
  1. https://www.legis.iowa.gov/legislators/legislator?ga=77&personID=71
  2. "FROM THE HOOD TO THE HILL: AN URBAN DREAM". Wayne Ford & Associates. Retrieved 5 December 2013.
Iowa House of Representatives
Preceded by
??		 71st District
1997 – 2003		 Succeeded by
Jim Van Engelenhoven
Preceded by
Carmine Boal		 65th District
2003 – present		 Succeeded by
Incumbent


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