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About Senator Beall
 Daryl
Beall was elected in 2010 to his third four-year term in the Iowa Senate.
He represents the people of Calhoun, Greene and Webster counties.
Senator Beall is Chair of the Veterans Affairs Committee, vice-chair of the
Local Government Committee and vice-chair of the Transportation &
Infrastructure Budget Subcommittee. He also serves on the Commerce,
Education and Transportation committees, and chairs the Joint House-Senate
International Relations Committee.
Beall was born in Fort Dodge and grew up near the Calhoun County town of
Somers. He attended Iowa Central Community College in Fort Dodge, where he
earned his associates degree and served as student body president. He earned
a B.A. in political science from Buena Vista University and a Master of
Public Administration from Drake University. He was a Taft Fellow at Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota.
Beall taught political science courses at Urbandale High School, where he
created and directed the Government Intern program in which students worked
for state legislators. He earned the Teacher’s Medal from the Freedoms
Foundation at Valley Forge for his innovative teaching style. He later was
twice elected to the Fort Dodge School Board.
Beall managed his family-owned furniture business in Fort Dodge and was
president of the Downtown Retailers Association. He also served as president
of the Interfaith Forum, the Kiwanis Club, chairman of the missions
committee at his church, and as a board member of the Child Abuse Council,
Arts Council, and the Alcoholism Treatment Center.
Beall is a member of the Kiwanis Club, and Trinity United Methodist Church.
He was active in Sister City, serving as president, and helped organize
linkages in Japan, Canada and Russia. He worked as a mission volunteer with
the Lakota people in South Dakota.
Beall earned the 2002 Martin Luther King Jr. Award for
Community Service for his demonstrated efforts to promote racial harmony and
tolerance of all people. The Izaak Walton League named Beall
Legislator of the Year in 2006 for legislative leadership on recycling and
environmental protection. In 2010, he received the President Herbert Hoover
"Uncommon Public Service Award." In 2008, the Iowa Asian Alliance named him
"Asian Ambassador," and in 2011 the Iowa Chinese Association presented
him The Community Service Diversity Award. In 2009, he received the
"Leadership in Citizen Diplomacy Award," and was the keynote speaker at
the 2009 World Youth Leadership Institute in Beijing, China.
Beall ran for Secretary of State in 1972 and remains the youngest statewide
candidate in the history of Iowa. In 2009, Senator Beall graduated from the
2009 FBI Citizen's Academy.
Beall was a newspaper columnist, editor, publisher and public relations
manager at weekly and daily newspapers in Iowa, Colorado and South Dakota
before returning to Fort Dodge, where he was marketing director for The
Messenger. He earned several state, national and
Associated Press awards for column and editorial writing and for newspaper
promotion. He also served as University Relations Director and on the
President’s Council at Dakota Wesleyan University.
Daryl and his wife, Jo Ann, have three grown children and ten
grandchildren.
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