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{{Short description|American politician}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| image = Penny Bernard Schaber.jpg
| imagesize =
| honorific-prefix =
| name = Penny Bernard Schaber
| honorific-suffix =
| caption =
| state = Wisconsin
| state_assembly = Wisconsin
| district = [[Wisconsin Assembly, District 57|57th]]
| term_start = January 3, 2009
| term_end = January 3, 2015
| preceded = [[Steve Wieckert]]
| succeeded = [[Amanda Stuck]]
| party = [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]]
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1953|11|5}}
| birth_place = [[Mundelein, Illinois]], U.S.
| death_date =
| death_place =
| alma_mater = [[Southern Illinois University]] ([[Bachelor of Science|BS]])<br>[[Northwestern University Medical School]] ([[Master of Physical Therapy|MPT]])
| occupation = [[Physical therapist]]
| residence = [[Appleton, Wisconsin]], U.S.
}}

'''Penny Bernard Schaber''' is an American politician who served as a member of the [[Wisconsin State Assembly]], representing the 57th Assembly District from 2009 to 2015.

==Early life and education==
Schaber was raised in [[Mundelein, Illinois]] and remained in Illinois to complete her Associate and Bachelor of Science degrees from [[Southern Illinois University]]. After graduation, she volunteered for the [[Peace Corps]], working at a hospital in [[Campo Grande]], [[Brazil]]. When she returned to the United States, she attended [[Northwestern University]] in [[Evanston, Illinois]] where she received a degree in physical therapy.

== Career ==
Bernard Schaber's career in healthcare brought her to [[Wisconsin]], where she started working in hospitals in [[Milwaukee]] and moved to the Fox Valley in 1984.<ref name="wisconsin1">Wisconsin Legislative Reference Bureau. ''[https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/misc/lrb/blue_book/2009_2010/200_biographies.pdf State of Wisconsin 2009 – 2010 Blue Book]''. Madison: Wisconsin Legislature Joint Committee on Legislative Organization, 2009, p. 57.</ref>

Before entering politics, Bernard Schaber worked as a physical therapist in local hospitals, community nursing homes, in private practice, and in schools. With a passion for the environment, she was active in the Fox River Cleanup Plan. In order to obtain a better understanding of environmental issues, Bernard Schaber returned to school in 1985 to complete an Associate Degree in Natural Resources at [[Fox Valley Technical College]]. As a member of the Fox Valley Sierra Group and as Chairperson for Wisconsin’s John Muir Chapter for the [[Sierra Club]], she has been very active in local and statewide natural resources.<ref name="wisconsin1" />

In 2008 Bernard Schaber was elected into the Wisconsin State Assembly from the 57th District after defeating Jo Egelhoff in the November general election.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://elections.state.wi.us/subcategory.asp?linksubcatid=2154&linkcatid=2154&linkid=155&locid=47|title=Elections Division - 2008 Fall Election Cycle|date=|publisher=[[Wisconsin Government Accountability Board]]|accessdate=May 25, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120708054706/http://elections.state.wi.us/subcategory.asp?linksubcatid=2154&linkcatid=2154&linkid=155&locid=47|archive-date=July 8, 2012|url-status=dead}}</ref>

Bernard Schaber won re-election November 2, 2010 defeating [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]] challenger Chris Hanson.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.jsonline.com/news/statepolitics/105000829.html|title=Fall 2010 general election results|date=November 2, 2010|publisher=Milwaukee Journal Sentinel|accessdate=May 25, 2012}}</ref>

Bernard Schaber was re-elected to a third term on November 6, 2012 after receiving a write-in challenger, Brian Garrow. Bernard Schaber received 19,862 or 94% of the votes cast in the 57th Assembly District.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://gab.wi.gov/sites/default/files/County%20by%20County_11.6.12%20Gen%20Election_Assembly.pdf|title=2012 Presidential and General Election|publisher=Wisconsin Government Accountability Board|accessdate=18 May 2014}}</ref>

=== Committee assignments ===
In the 2009–2010 Legislative Session, Bernard Schaber was a member of the Health and Health Care Reform Committee, the Public Health Committee, the Transportation Committee and was Vice-Chair of the Jobs, the Economy, and Small Business Committee.

In the 2011–2012 Legislative Session, Rep. Bernard Schaber was a member of the Jobs, Economy and Small Business Committee, the Transportation Committee, and was the minority ranking member on the Aging and Long-Term Care Committee.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://legis.wisconsin.gov/w3asp/commpages/commprint.aspx?house=assembly|title=Standing Committees of the Wisconsin Assembly|date=|publisher=Legis.wisconsin.gov|accessdate=May 25, 2012}}</ref>

In the 2013–2014 Legislative Session, Bernard Schaber serves on the Jobs, Economy and Mining Committee and is the minority ranking member of the Aging and Long-Term Care Committee, the Transportation Committee and the Joint Survey Committee on Tax Exemptions.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://legis.wisconsin.gov/Pages/leg-info-comm.aspx?d=57&h=A|title=Representative Penny Bernard Schaber |publisher=Wisconsin State Legislature|accessdate=18 May 2014}}</ref> In addition, she is a member of the Governor's Council on Highway Safety.

=== Campaign for State Senate ===
On July 23, 2013 Bernard Schaber announced her campaign for [[Wisconsin State Senate]], challenging long-time incumbent Senator [[Michael Ellis (American politician)|Mike Ellis]]<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.postcrescent.com/viewart/20130723/APC010403/307230196/Bernard-Schaber-will-challenge-Ellis-state-Senate |archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20140518210412/http://www.postcrescent.com/viewart/20130723/APC010403/307230196/Bernard-Schaber-will-challenge-Ellis-state-Senate |archivedate=18 May 2014 |title=Bernard Schaber will challenge Ellis in state Senate|accessdate=18 May 2014|newspaper=Appleton Post Crescent|date=24 July 2013}}</ref>

On April 11, 2014 Senator Mike Ellis dropped his bid for re-election.<ref>{{cite news|title=Mike Ellis drops out of state Senate race|url=http://www.jsonline.com/news/statepolitics/ellis-drops-out-of-senate-race-b99245893z1-254907211.html|accessdate=18 May 2014|newspaper=Milwaukee Journal Sentinel|date=11 April 2014}}</ref> Bernard Schaber was defeated by [[Roger Roth]] on November 4, 2014.<ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.whby.com/index.php/News/WHBY_News/420728 |title= Roth defeats Bernard Schaber for Senate |website= [[WHBY]] |date= 5 November 2014}}</ref> [[Amanda Stuck]] was elected to the Wisconsin State Assembly to succeed Bernard Schaber.<ref>{{cite news |url= http://www.postcrescent.com/story/news/politics/elections/2014/11/05/stuck-takes-vacated-th-district-assembly-seat/18516839/ |title=Stuck takes vacated 57th District Assembly seat |newspaper= Appleton Post Crescent |first= Ariel |last= Cheung |date= 5 November 2014}}</ref>
In 2015, Bernard Schaber was elected to be a member of the state governing board of Common Cause Wisconsin, the state's largest non-partisan citizen reform advocacy organization with more than 18,000 members and activists. In 2022, she was elected as Co-chair of Common Cause Wisconsin, along with former Republican State Rep. and retired Wisconsin Court of Appeals Judge [[David Deininger]] of Monroe, WI.

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
* {{CongLinks | congbio= | votesmart=68676 | fec= | congress= }}
*''Follow the Money'' - Penny Bernard Schaber
**[http://www.followthemoney.org/database/StateGlance/candidate.phtml?c=110279 2008] [http://www.followthemoney.org/database/StateGlance/candidate.phtml?c=78689 2006] campaign contributions
*[http://www.opensecrets.org/wdc/cands.php?id=104412 Penny Bernard Schaber] campaign contributions at ''Wisconsin Democracy Campaign''

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[[Category:Politicians from Appleton, Wisconsin]]
[[Category:People from Mundelein, Illinois]]
[[Category:Southern Illinois University alumni]]
[[Category:Feinberg School of Medicine alumni]]
[[Category:Fox Valley Technical College alumni]]
[[Category:21st-century American women politicians]]
[[Category:21st-century members of the Wisconsin Legislature]]

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