---
type: Person
title: "Janet Petersen"
description: "IA Senate District 18 — IA State Senate District 18"
role: "IA Senate District 18"
party: "D"
level: "state"
branch: "legislative"
state: "IA"
district: "IA State Senate District 18"
represents: "us/states/ia/districts/senate/18"
tenure:
  start: "2013-01-14"
  current: true
election:
  term_length: 2
  term_limit: "varies"
ids:
  person: "a5b3c412-a138-4b1e-8889-61e07cf4d692"
  office: "69385618-5c99-4db9-aa38-819204c637e9"
  tenure: "95bbf9be-5ac2-472f-8fca-670c35bf5b8d"
  jurisdiction: "496cbf87-9cca-4976-8d46-660beca94973"
sources:
  - field: tenure
    source: "OpenStates YAML via GitHub 2026-06-20"
  - field: jurisdiction
    source: "SLDU (Census 2025)"
confidence: official
tags: [officeholder, state, legislative, ia]
timestamp: "2026-07-04"
---

# Janet Petersen

Current IA Senate District 18 (IA State Senate District 18).

Represents [IA State Senate District 18](/us/states/ia/districts/senate/18.md).

## Sources

- tenure: OpenStates YAML via GitHub 2026-06-20
- jurisdiction: SLDU (Census 2025)

Generated from the Atlas officeholders v3 export (2026-07-04).