Joanne C. Stehr is an American politician serving as a member of thePennsylvania House of Representatives for the107th district. Elected in November 2022, she assumed office on January 3, 2023.^[1] She is noted as being the first female legislator to ever represent any part of Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania.

Stehr attended Tri-Valley Junior/Senior High School graduating as part of their class of 1982. She then attended the Schuylkill county area vocationaltechnical school where she received her license to become a practicingnurse.^[1][2]

Stehr ran on a platform of lowering taxes, implementing term limits, and protecting thesecond amendment.^[2] In what many considered an upset, she defeated a primary challenger, Ron Tanney, with almost a 7% margin before facingDemocrat Ryan Mock in the general election. She would defeat him with almost a 50% margin.^[3]

Since being elected, she has opened two district offices, one inShamokin, Pennsylvania and another inHegins, Pennsylvania.^[4]

In January 2026, at a townhall event in her constituency held over concerns about the planned conversion of a warehouse into an I.C.E. detention facility, Stehr compared people arrested by ICE to trash and was booed by the locals in attendance: "Do I think it should be going in our backyard? Probably not ... I'm saying ICE has a job to do, and it's going to get done. We are taking out the trash.”^[5]

Stehr is divorced and lives in a home she inherited from her parents. She has two sons, Eli and Beau.^[2]

The name Stehr is of German origin, and Stehr is descendant from immigrants.^[6]

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• Republican Party members of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives
• 21st-century American women politicians
• Women state legislators in Pennsylvania
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