Sarah Trone Garriott

Sarah Trone Garriott grew up with an auto mechanic for a father and a union nurse for a mother.¹ She put herself through college working at Walmart, waiting tables and cleaning hotel rooms.² A mother of two sons, she has also worked as a hospital chaplain, Lutheran minister and food pantry leader.²

Her early service included a year as an AmeriCorps VISTA volunteer supporting people facing domestic violence.² She studied at Harvard Divinity School while working at a women's shelter and a nonprofit serving young people.² After hospital chaplaincy, she became an ordained Lutheran pastor, serving in rural Virginia before moving to Iowa in 2013 to lead Faith Lutheran Church in Clive.²

Her food pantry work included coordinating interfaith engagement for the Des Moines Area Religious Council's network.² Her food pantry service spanned nine years.¹ She won her first Iowa Senate election in 2020, defeated then Senate President Jake Chapman in 2022 and won reelection in 2024.²

Trone Garriott emphasizes affordable health care, mental health services, public schools, paid family leave, child care and reproductive rights.² Her record also includes introducing proposals for political term limits and restrictions on stock trading by politicians and their staff.¹ She faces Republican Representative Zach Nunn in Iowa's 3rd District.³