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Jo Ann M. Johnson (born April 24, 1949) is an American politician. Jo Ann Dinkla was born to parents Elmer and Arlene Dinkla in
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, on April 24, 1949. Her younger brother is
Dwight Dinkla Dwight L. Dinkla (born December 30, 1951) an American politician. Dinkla was raised in Adair County, Iowa, alongside an elder sister Jo Ann Dinkla, by parents Elmer and Arlene Dinkla. He graduated from Adair-Casey Community High School in 1970, c ...
. Jo Ann Dinkla graduated from Adair-Casey High School in 1967, and earned a bachelor of arts in education from the
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in 1971. That year, she married Craig Douglas, with whom she raised a daughter and a son. Jo Ann Douglas worked as a farmer, teacher and coach, served on the Adair-Casey school board and the Adair County Republican Central Committee, and was a member of
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's campaign staff from 1984 to 1990. She was elected to her first term on the
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in 1994, and served
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. By the start of her second term in 1999, she had moved to
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, remarried to Brian Johnson, and became known as Jo Ann Johnson. Johnson stepped down from the Iowa Senate on January 22, 2002, and David Lord won a special election to serve the remainder of Johnson's term in office.


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