title: Bill Schickel
text: # Bill Schickel
  
  Bill Schickel is an Iowa broadcast executive. A former Iowa State Representative, he represented the 13th District for three terms. He was elected to his fourth term as the mayor of Mason City, Iowa on November 7, 2017. He is the former the co-chairman of the Republican Party of Iowa. He was chairman of the 2012 Iowa Caucus Review Committee.
  
  During his service in the Iowa House, Schickel served as a member of the Appropriations and Economic Growth committees and as the chair of the Ethics Committee and of the Economic Development Appropriations Committee.
  
  He was a news anchor, producer, assignment editor, reporter and account executive for the CBS television affiliate, KIMT-TV, in Mason City, IA. He worked as an editor and reporter for The Globe-Gazette in Mason City and newspapers in Ohio.
  
  He received his BA from the University of Cincinnati.
  
  His wife, Candi, is a Mason City, IA, attorney. The Schickels have three adult daughters.
  
  ## Electoral history
  
  *incumbent
  
  | Election | Political result | Candidate | Party | Votes | % |
  | - | - | - | - | - | - |
  | Iowa House of Representatives elections, 2002 District 13 Turnout: 9,876 | Republican (newly redistricted) | Bill Schickel | Republican | 5,168 | 52.3 |
  | Iowa House of Representatives elections, 2002 District 13 Turnout: 9,876 | Republican (newly redistricted) | Lionel J. Foster | Democratic | 4,673 | 47.3 |
  | Iowa House of Representatives elections, 2004 District 13 Turnout: 14,917 | Republican hold | Bill Schickel* | Republican | 7,914 | 53.1 |
  | Iowa House of Representatives elections, 2004 District 13 Turnout: 14,917 | Republican hold | Bob Cole | Democratic | 6,985 | 46.8 |
  | Iowa House of Representatives elections, 2006 District 13 Turnout: 10,644 | Republican hold | Bill Schickel* | Republican | 5,433 | 51.0 |
  | Iowa House of Representatives elections, 2006 District 13 Turnout: 10,644 | Republican hold | Alan Steckman | Democratic | 4,616 | 43.4 |
  | Iowa House of Representatives elections, 2006 District 13 Turnout: 10,644 | Republican hold | Gary Van Horn | Independent | 540 | 5.1 |
  