Candidate Profile: Pat Van Zante, District 71
- Pat Van Zante
Pat Van Zante is a lifelong resident of Iowa. Her ancestors homesteaded south of Prairie City and in Delaware County in the early 1850s.
Pat grew up in Des Moines and graduated from Roosevelt High School. She attended the University of Iowa, where she met and married her husband of 36 years, Arvin Van Zante. They have made their home in Pella for the last 31 years and have two children, Libby (Jason) and Peter, and two grandchildren, Riley and Eleanor. Pat currently works as a clinical social worker and intake specialist at Capstone Behavioral Health Centers in Newton and Knoxville, providing therapeutic service to clients with mental illness and substance abuse issues. (more…)