Joanne C. Stehr is an American politician serving as a member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for the 107th district. Elected in November 2022, she assumed office on January 3, 2023. 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 vocational technical school where she received her license to become a practicing nurse.
Stehr ran on a platform of lowering taxes, implementing term limits, and protecting the second amendment. In what many considered an upset, she defeated a primary challenger, Ron Tanney, with almost a 7% margin before facing Democrat Ryan Mock in the general election. She would defeat him with almost a 50% margin.
Since being elected, she has opened two district offices, one in Shamokin, Pennsylvania and another in Hegins, Pennsylvania.
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.âÂÂ
Stehr is divorced and lives in a home she inherited from her parents. She has two sons, Eli and Beau.
The name Stehr is of German origin, and Stehr is descendant from immigrants.